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Bernd. So the metadata is never set as a property to the words themselves, but rather in the "owner" of those words, that is, the line? In that case how do you pull the individual metaDatas for each word? Is the line metadata an associated list of pairs, each word in the line to a string of some so...

Jeff, I made another attempt at being able to set the backgroundColor of words in a text and provide metadata for each word. For me this works. I store the metadata of words in the metadata of line 1 of the field. Have a look at the demo stack and see if it fits your needs. There is a little more in...

Jeff, see edit below One way to work around the backgroundColor problem with metadata is to use linkText as a property of the word. You just set the linkText of a word and you could handle it just like metaData. As far as I can see there is no functional difference. You do NOT set the textStyle to "...

Jeff,

I probably got carried away by how to process metadata/linkText upon user action.

But I am sure you will find a solution for your interface without the backgroundColor.

Kind regards
Bernd

Hi Jeff, here is a stack that shows what I mean. The card script has the logic to process clicks. Button "cleanFieldTXT" resets the field. Button "setWordsToLinked" sets up links and linkText Button "setMetadatafldTXT" sets metadata of the words Set up the text using the buttons and click on any lin...

Gary,

I am running out of ideas and have the impression that it is Windows specific.

Maybe someone using Windows could chime in.

Kind regards
Bernd

Richmond,

try:
Kind regards
Bernd

Richmond,

That looks very nice.
Now set the metadata of some of the words and see if the colors are still contiguous.

Kind regards
Bernd

Hi deniolps, Welcome to the forum. I have no experience with Android but the dictionary says Description This widget wraps an MKMapView on iOS and 64-bit Mac, and a GoogleMap on Android. It supports simple markers and polylines (on Android). Note: In order to use the map widget on Android, you must ...

Hi Jeff, I see the same behavior regarding the backgroundColor you see. And it has bugged me also. If I understand correctly what you want is to store information regarding certain words for further processing. LC has the option to setting the textStyle of textChunks (chars, words etc.) to "link". T...

Gary, after installing open sans of your choice could you do the following from the message box? put the fontNames into tNames; sort tNames; filter tNames with "*open sans*"; put tNames Put the code into the single line message box and hit return. What shows up in the message box? Kind regards Bernd

Gary,

Just a wild guess:
Did you close the Properties Inspector after installing a new font?
In my experience the Properties Inspector does not refresh the list of available fonts once open.

Kind regards
Bernd

Gary, I downloaded the open sans family from Google. It gave me 2 variable fonts and a folder of static fonts. That folder of static fonts contained the ones you are asking for. I installed the fonts using a button on mouseUp answer file "choose font" if it is not empty then put it into tFile start ...

If I understand your algorithm correctly, this requires knowing approximately how many chars per line there are, and that all lines have a more or less similar number of chars. In the context of what is being asked your solution works extraordinarily well. Wild variation in the number of chars per ...

I did another test on a 1 billion numbers version of pi. The file size is 1 GB. I set the lineDelimiter to 5 and then repeated the tests. "put url" took just short of 7 seconds, whereas "open file" stayed at 1 millisecond. (I saved everything before the test because I was not sure how LC would handl...