[question / feature request] Would it be possible to format bits of strings in a remi.gui.TextInput widget

[tensorfoo]

For example have one word in one color, the next word in another color, etc. Is it possible to do that or would it need a lot of work?

[dddomodossola]

Here is an example for you:

import remi.gui as gui
from remi import start, App
import os

class styled_txt(gui.Widget, gui._MixinTextualWidget):
    def __init__(self, text, *args, **kwargs):
        super(styled_txt, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.type = 'span'
        self.set_text(text)


class MyApp(App):
    def main(self):
        #creating a container VBox type, vertical (you can use also HBox or Widget)
        main_container = gui.VBox(width=300, height=200, style={'margin':'0px auto'})

        red = {'color':'red'}
        bold = {'font-weight':'bolder'}
        blue = {'color':'blue'}
        green = {'color':'green'}
        label = gui.Label("", children=[styled_txt("text "), styled_txt("red ", style=red), styled_txt("bold ", style=bold),])
        #you can of course use append
        label.append( styled_txt("blue ", style=blue))
        #THE FOLLOWING LINE IS ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH PYTHON 3
        label.append( styled_txt("green and bold ", style={**green, **bold}))

        main_container.append(label)

        # returning the root widget
        return main_container


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # starts the webserver

with this solution you can't use set_text to set the content of the label. you must use append.

[dddomodossola]

I forgot to say that this is valid only for Label and can't be used for TextInput.

[tensorfoo]

Thanks so much. That was really lovely! Yeah, i've been trying to adapt it for TextInput, well, the reason is i've got a bunch of text I want to present to the user by selectively coloring bits for emphasis.