Macro to colorize each letter

[Maythe]

To all you super smart forum dwellers,

Okay, so I've been looking into OOoBasic and the API all day, but if there's any solid documentation, I haven't exactly found it.

What I'm trying to do is create a macro/extension that will color each character a different, but constant color as I type. (i.e. all 'a's will be red and all 'b's will be blue, etc.) I know that there is an extension called cOOoder which colorizes words as if the program were a code window ("if" would be dark blue, text in quotes would be dark green, etc.) so I'm sure that it's possible to have specific characters colorized in the same way. I just don't know how.

So... any code snippets or reference links or otherwise constructive responses you might offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
-Maythe.

[therabi]

Have you tried the Basic Programming Guide on the documentation wiki at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide ? Have you tried to reverse engineer the cOOoder extension?
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[Robert Tucker]

I don't know how often you want to carry out the exercise, but if it's only on one or two texts you could just use Search and Replace 26 times. (If you write a macro I'm pretty sure you will still need to write out a line or two for each letter or at least set up an array with every letter in it.)
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[Gpoly]

You can test this.