FileMaker Pro Custom Functions

//cfColorByIndent (pText ; pIndentChar ; pRgbColorList) = Let( [ vLineCnt = ValueCount( pText ) ; vThisLine = TextColorRemove( LeftValues( pText ; 1 ) ) ; //reset the line's color vFirstDiff = Left( Substitute( vThisLine; pIndentChar; "" ); 1) ; //get the 1st character not being the indent char vDepth = Case( Left( vThisLine; 1 ) <> pIndentChar; 0; Position( vThisLine; vFirstDiff; 1; 1 ) -1 ) ; //final indent depth vColCnt = ValueCount( pRgbColorList ) ; vRotMult = Ceiling( vDepth / vColCnt ) -1 ; //get multiplier for rotating the color list //get final color from color list. rotate color list if indent depth exceeds number of chosen colors. use "evaluate"! vOut = Case( vDepth = 0; vThisLine; TextColor( vThisLine ; Evaluate( GetValue( pRgbColorList ; vDepth - vRotMult * vColCnt ) ) ) ) ]; Case( vLineCnt>1; vOut & cfColorByIndent( RightValues( pText ; vLineCnt-1 ) ; pIndentChar ; pRgbColorList ); vOut ) //end case ) //end let /* authors: tammo fornalik, felix hausberner ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ parameters: pText = the given text. pIndentChar = character or string which determines the depth of indentation/thread-depth and therefore the line's color. pRgbColorList = rgb specifications as a return delimited list [syntax: RGB( red; green; blue ) &¶& RGB( red; green; blue )...] calling syntax: cfColorByIndent( ">Hello!¶>>What's up?¶¶>>>Look: 5>4¶Ah."; ">"; RGB( 0; 0; 255 ) &¶& RGB( 0; 255; 0 ) &¶& RGB( 255; 0; 0 ) ) or cfColorByIndent( Message_t; ">"; zz_ColorList_gt ), given Message_t is a text-field and zz_ColorList_gt is a (globally stored) multiline-field. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ great for emphasizing thread-depths in a forum or indentations in text. arbitrary color-lists. colors every line by counting the determined indention character, which is always at the start of a line (also several times). thereby it does not matter how often the character occurs in the line altogether, but only, how often the character occurs BEFORE the first "regular" character of the line. the highest indentation-level (no indention) is left in the standard text color for the appropriate field. as soon as the indentation count exceeds the count of determined colors, the color list rotates. also permitted is a multiline-rgb-list list of a global field. */
 Then copy & paste into FileMaker Advanced's Edit Custom Function window.