Text Area formatting

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I have a perl script that was written to output data to a log file on a Oracle Solaris Server. I am using xojo to connect via a httpsocket and run a script that will return the contents of the log and I then place that into a TextArea for display on the workstation. The problem is that the formatting of the text and the color (which changes when a process goes down) does not take place. In the perl script I include: use Term:ANSIColor qw(:constants); to enable the output and I also output to the log file so that it is pleasing to read.

Name (32 spaces) Marker (10 spaces) OS-pid (10 spaces) Start Time (8 spaces) Elapsed Time

Is there a way to format the data that is received to appear in this format and embed the color when he process goes down? Any help would be appreciated.

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Textarea supports Styled Text (can also parse “some” RTF formatted text)… it does not conform the the ANSI Terminal commands

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Thanks Dave, I will look at how to use the styled text.

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So is there an example on how to use the Styled Text for formatting data in the textarea. What I have found has been mainly for font, color, and font style. To be able to utilize output for columns I have not seen. I have looked at Regex to see if this is possible. There is a specific pattern on the data that is sent.

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hence the use of the word “some” in my reply above. TextArea is NOT a word processor… it is … well a text area…
StyleRuns support font, color, bold, italic and underline for the most part.

Perhaps if you are looking to display tabular data, then a Listbox might be a better choice. Using the TextPaint and BackgroundPaint events, you have 100% complete control over the visual attributes