Is there a way to mix textual effects?

[kurt_cobain]

I have a text field like this:

 

"Your payment of $F{pmt} was received, thanks"

 

I'd like to bold only the payment part, and have the rest not be bold. I can do that with other reporting tools but haven't found a way to do it with Jasper; is it possible? Thanks

[ge0ffrey]

there's a property to mark a textfield's content as markup rtf or html, so you could probably fake a html output?

[lucianc]

There's also a JasperReports-specific "styled text" syntax that allows you to apply style attributes to text fragments. Check the "styledtext" sample from the JR distribution.

 

HTH,

Lucian

[lshannon]

Very interesting. I was just playing with this. I created a TextField with this expression:

 

"Lets make the date bold and red <style forecolor='red'>" + new Date() + "</style>"

 

In the font properties I set the "isStyledText" to true.

 

The date was red in PDF, HTML and and the JRPreviewer. This is sort of weird because I seem to remember you could only do this in a Static Text Field. Prior to 2.0.5 I don't even remember TextFields having a "isStyledText" option.

 

HTH

 

 

Code:

<textField isStretchWithOverflow="false" isBlankWhenNull="false" evaluationTime="Now" hyperlinkType="None"  hyperlinkTarget="Self" >
					<reportElement
						x="0"
						y="0"
						width="535"
						height="77"
						key="textField-1"/>
					<box></box>
					<textElement isStyledText="true">
						<font/>
					</textElement>
				<textFieldExpression   class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA["Lets make the date bold and red <style forecolor='red'>" + new Date() + "</style>"]]></textFieldExpression>
				</textField>

[lucianc]

Styled text has always been available for both static texts and text fields.

 

Regards,

Lucian

[kurt_cobain]

Thanks guys; using the styling worked. I couldn't get it to work with text fields though... I had to conver them to $F entities.