Expression Editor and Font Attributes

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Hi, I would like to provide my users with the ability to define custom headers for predefined reports. Sending the headers as parameters is easy but I would also like to allow them to decide on font size, bold or italic.

 

My problem is that I do not know how to set the font attributes (size, bold, and italic) dynamically. I can preset the textField property sheet | font tab to some default settings but have not figured out how to override these attributes in an expression statement.

 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

TC

[Giulio Toffoli]

Using JR < 2.0.5:

 

Set the textfield text property "styled text" to true. This allows you to use simple html tags like: <u><b><i>.

 

Using JR >= 2.0.5

 

There is a new markup attribute for textfields and static texts. This can be set to HTML to be able to format a text using pure HTML tags.

 

Thanks

 

giulio