Color change in crawl?

Posted: Friday, 07/02/2004 -- by Edward Owen. Subject: Color change in crawl?

Is there any way you can embed a command in the rich text file that you link to a crawl that would temporarily change the font color?

Posted: Friday, 07/02/2004 -- by Axel Denker. Subject: Release Notes

Hi Edward,

in the Release Notes of R6 you can read:

InfoChannel Designer and Player now support one or more Global Text Crawls, for crawling text during the entire script (or during a group of pages). In Designer, simply choose Add Text Crawl from the page's Add pop-up, then select the Global? checkmark.
Global Text Crawl supports all the features of Text Crawl, with the exception of element opacity, layering, bevel, border, wipes, and the wait option. Global Text Crawl supports all the different data source types (file, expression, or cued expression), direction, rotation, etc. Global Text Crawl must always have a backdrop color or image. As well, within the ScalaScript all colors need to be specified in RGB syntax rather than using pens from the page's palette. The ScalaScript syntax for RGB colors is:
     RGB($rrggbb)
and is used in place of
     Pen($pennum)
where rr, gg, and bb are the hexadecimal values of the levels of red, green, and blue respectively.
(Note: RGB() can actually be hand-authored for any color of any element, but is required for Global Text Crawl.)
Text Crawl and Global Text Crawl now support a wide variety of embedded tags within the crawl data for controlling the appearance of crawled text:
     <typeface = "typefacename">
     <typesize = "pointsize">
     <facecolor = "#rrggbb">
     <outlinecolor = "#rrggbb">
     <shadowcolor = "#rrggbb">
     <undercolor = "#rrggbb">
     <face = "On|Off">
     <front = "On|Off">
     <outline = "On|Off">
     <outlinethickness = "numpixels">
     <shadow = "On|Off">
     <shadowoffset = "numpixels_horizontal, numpixels_vertical">
     <under = "On|Off">
     <underposition = "numpixels">
     <underthickness = "numpixels">
     <underair = "numpixels">
     <bold = "On|Off">
     <bolddelta = "numpixels">
     <italic = "On|Off">
     <italicdelta = "numpixels">
     <extragap = "numpixels">
Most of the above are self-explanatory. (Note that the four ...color options were added and documented in Release 4, but are included here for completeness.)
For typefacename, specify the typeface as generally seen in saved ScalaScripts, e.g.:
     <typeface = "Segoe Regular (Western [<Segoe>])">
The <extragap> option specifies the number of extra pixel rows of gap that should be added before the next segment is crawled. This option is useful to increase spacing when using scrolls (i.e. vertical crawls).

Best regards,
Axel Denker
Scala Netherlands

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