On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:

> David Cottrell wrote:
> 
> > I seem to recall from the beta list that you have to select the text to
> > change its style attributes (like colour) - I've not played with this
> > however. My understanding is that this is different from FBII.
> 
> This is NO MINOR DIFFERENCE! Someone please explain. "Select the text"?

As in SETSELECT.  Then change the color.  Easy.

You can't just change the foreground color before changing an edit field
and expect it to work.  As has been said more times than I can remember,
FB2 was not supposed to allow you to change the foreground color to change
the color of text.  It was a bug.  (ANd oneday I'll get TJ for posting the
code that exploited it and got everyone thinking it was okay to do).

So don't do this like you did in FB2:

EDIT FIELD 1,"Sometext"
TEXT _NewYork, 24
COLOR _zRed
EDIT$(1)="Some more text"


Edit fields are a bit smarter now.  That won't work, but this will:

TEXT _NewYork, 24
COLOR _zRed
EDIT FIELD 1,"Sometext",(0,0)-(100,100)

Edit fields will now strictly remember what the font and color was when
they were first built.  If you want to change the font or color later on
manually, you must SETSELECT and then use EDIT TEXT.

This really is something of a bug fix because Edit Field fonts and colors
could sometimes be messed up if you drew some graphics and then changed
the edit field contents.  Now they won't be.

-Derek