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Change colour of 1st letter in field

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2009-08-29 17:03:52
PetafromOz
Registered: Jun 8 2009
Posts: 230

I'm trying to make the first letter in a field red - while the rest of the text remains black. The text in this field results from numbers entered in a previous field. So for example if 02 is entered in the Code field: A - AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING is displayed, or say 09 is entered in the code field, then B - MINING will be displayed in this field, 44 - H - ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES, etc etc.

The first letter is a code division signifier, so I'd like that first letter A, B, C, etc. to stand out and be red.

This is what I've done:

form1.firstPage.ANZSICDiv::initialize - (JavaScript, client)

var FirstChar = (Rtrim(this), 1);
FirstChar.fontColor = "255,0,0";
this = FirstChar;

But, it doesn't work.
Any suggestions please?

from way... underground at Parkes - central West NSW - Australia

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2009-08-30 18:00:03
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PetafromOz
Registered: Jun 8 2009
Posts: 230
I got around this by simply putting another field in front of it & hiding the borders - so that the first code letter goes into that field & is independent. Thus I can set it to be whatever colour I want. However, if anyone knows how to do the above, I'd still love to hear.

from way... underground at Parkes - central West NSW - Australia

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2009-08-31 00:52:01
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radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
Ok, I have a fine solution for this.
In my example there is a text field (for input) and a text (for output) with two hidden floating text fields (one for the first character, one for the other characters).
In the first text field I put the calculation code:
Left(Textfeld1, 1)
And in the second one I used:
var MyLength = Len(Textfeld1)var MyNewLength = MyLength - 1 $.rawValue = Right(Textfeld1, MyNewLength)

For the first field I changed the text color to red.
So if I now type "Hello" into the text field, the text show also "Hello" with a red H.

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=91cabf7c-83a3-46cd-b37b-1ffd45e0383e

radzmar
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