To help me and my clients when testing fields that should be either text or rich text, or to see the effect of coloured text on forms with coloured backgrounds, I knocked up this simple SmartIcon to insert text into the current field. It uses two 'standard' fonts and colours when inserting the test text. It's a noddy solution, but it saves a lot of time. Just paste this into a new SmartIcon.
REM "SI: Test Text." ;
REM "To assist with testing text and rich text fields." ;
REM "To also see effect of text colour on a coloured background." ;
@If( ! @IsDocBeingEdited; @Return(0) ; @Success );
@Command([TextSetFontFace];"Helv");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Black]);
@Command([EditInsertText];@NewLine+"Test Text" + @NewLine );
@Command([EditInsertText];"Helv - standard Notes font." + @NewLine );
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC ");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Gray]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Red]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Yellow]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Green]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Cyan]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Blue]);
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@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Magenta]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkRed]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Brown]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkGreen]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkCyan]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkBlue]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkMagenta]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC" + @NewLine );
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Black]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"Wingdings - different appearance in RTF to that in Text only." + @NewLine );
@Command([TextSetFontFace]; "Wingdings");
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Gray]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Red]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Yellow]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Green]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Cyan]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Blue]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Magenta]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkRed]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Brown]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkGreen]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkCyan]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkBlue]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[DarkMagenta]);
@Command([EditInsertText];"TC");
@Command([TextSetFontFace];"Helv");
@Command([TextSetFontColor];[Black]);
@Command([EditInsertText];@NewLine+"Test Text" + @NewLine )
This was first published in March 2001