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I have a text box getting a number from a datalinq feed. If the number coming in is 0 or higher, I want the number to be green; if negative, I would like the number to be red. How do I script this?

I use font names rather than their IDs, though you can use either...

On your text object, try this script:

dim number as xpTextObject

scene.getObjectByName("Text1", number)

if cInt(text) >= "0" then

number.textwithtags = "{font_green}" & number.textwithtags

else

number.textwithtags = "{font_red}" & number.textwithtags

end if

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not sure what I'm doing wrong, but this script is not working for me. I even renamed all of my fonts and the text object to match the language in this script. It keeps the original font the scene is created with no matter what the value of the number is.

Any other ideas?

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here's a link to hopefully download what I did so you can take a look at it.

http://www.filedropper.com/fontcolortest

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Hi Brian,

Just change your script to this and it's working correctly in your sample project:



if cInt(text) >= "0" then

text = "{green}" & text

else

text = "{red}" & text

end if



The GetObjectByName and textwithtags calls in the original sample are not actually needed. Also, your fonts were called "red" and "green" so the script should use "red" not "font_red".

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Perfect! Thanks a bunch!

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On a related subject, is there a way to get the font to hide the minus symbol but still change the text color based on the value?

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Or how would I script this text box to change its color based upon the positive or negative value of the text in a second box?

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To remove the minus sign you could do this:



if cDbl(text) >= "0" then

text = "{green}" & text

else

text = "{red}" & mid(text,2)

end if



mid(text,2) will strip the first character off of the negative value (which should be the minus sign).

Note that I also change the first line from cInt to cDbl so that this function works better with negative decimal values.

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