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Hi everybody, I've already seen a few messages about this topic, but despite having read these, I can't get how to set up a connection to a MySQL database on a remote server through SSH tunnel. I'm using LiveCode Community version on Windows. My remote server is on Ubuntu Server. I don't know what e...

Hi. Thank you dunbarx , for this very inspiring post. Variables are simply raw text, that is, they have no textStyle characteristics at all. They are containers that hold data for future use. You can indeed store the htmlText of a field, say, in a variable, and the "styles" of the original source ar...

Thanks, Thierry! I'd tried set the textStyle of 5 last words of field 1 but this chunck was no recognized. I didn't know the syntax: word -5 to -1. What about the second question: is it possible to manage the styles "inside" a variable? How to attach styles to parts of text in a variable? Regards, R...

Hi,

I am looking how to use the textStyle property.
How to set the last 5 words of a field to italic?

I didn't find it into the documentation. Probably an insufficient search… Can you help me?

Thanks,

Rémi

Exactly what I wanted!
Thank you… I didn't find it into the Dictionary at first.

Hi,

I have a field with many lines.
I would like to get the number of the line of this field, the user clicked on it. The field is read-only.

If the user clicks on the second line, I would like to get "2"…

Any help?

Thanks,

Rémi