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How to set part of string in bold? [message #583425]

Tue, 30 April 2013 12:53

neimad
Messages: 13
Registered: April 2013
Location: Canada

Junior Member

Hi,
I'm new here, so, hi every body. I work with Oracle Forms and Report Builder since several weeks, but now i have something that i want to do with Report Builder.

I get string from DB (It's a paragraph)
But i would like to set bold weight on a part of the string

for now, i set bold text i want to and
i have created a fonction that make text bold like this

l_chaine := (SUBSTR(MyStrFromDB, InSTR(UPPER(MyStrFromDB), '[B]'),InSTR(UPPER(MyStrFromDB), '[/B]') ));

if(length(l_chaine) > 0) then
      SRW.SET_FONT_WEIGHT(SRW.BOLD_WEIGHT);
end if;

but it doesnt look to works..

how can i do that? And where i can do that?

Is it possible to do that?

thanks for your help.

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Re: How to set part of string in bold? [message #583431 is a reply to message #583425]

Tue, 30 April 2013 14:05

Littlefoot
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Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe

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One option is to split that paragraph into 3 parts:
- the first part is text in front of the bold text (let's call it THE_FIRST_PART)
- the second part is the bold text itself (THE_BOLD_PART)
- the third part is the rest of the text (THE_REST)

Then, in Paper Layout Editor, you wouldn't create fields for these parts, but use the "&" notation, such as:

This is Paper Layout Editor. The first part of the text is &THE_FIRST_PART, bold will be &THE_BOLD_PART, and here goes &THE_REST of the text

. Now it is easy to mark (select, with a mouse) &THE_BOLD_PART and make it bold (using the toolbar).

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Re: How to set part of string in bold? [message #583478 is a reply to message #583431]

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:30

neimad
Messages: 13
Registered: April 2013
Location: Canada

Junior Member

Hi, thanks for your reply, but the problem is the bold marks can be everywhere in a paragraph.

The solution i've found are to set the Area to support HTML Tags, and i replace the [ B ] and [ /B ] with < p > and < /p > and that looks to works.

but if you have another tips.. i'm open!

thanks again.

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