New to Revolution

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Troy <troy at healthwealthintl.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm new to Revolution, but I am a professional
> Windows developer with
> about 10 years of experience mostly in VC++ and VB. 
> I have a couple of
> questions I was hoping someone could answer:
>  
> 1)       Is it possible to access the Windows API
> (and the equivalent on
> other O/S's) from within Revolution?
> 2)       As part of an application we're trying to
> develop, we would
> need a text field with word processor-like features.
>  By this I mean:
> a.       Changing font
> size/type/color/bold/italic/underline of a word
> or words (without changing the entire field)
> b.       Being able to insert an image right into
> the text field
> c.       Adding a table
> d.       Having a bulleted list of items (numbered
> and un-numbered)
> e.       Setting the alignment
> (left/center/right/justify) for a
> paragraph independent of the other paragraphs
> f.         Highlighting text
>  
> I'm just trying to find out if this is possible,
> first of all, and if
> someone could possibly point me in the direction of
> what to look for in
> the Revolution documentation.
>  
> Thank you
>  
> 


Hi Troy,

The standard fields in Revolution won't satisfy your
needs, I'm afraid : text alignment is set for an
entire field, and doesn't include justify ; bulleted
lists aren't built-in (though this could be mimicked
through cleer use of images) ; and tables is a
much-requested feature.

If you only have to _display_ this type of formatted
text on Windows, you could give altBrowser a whirl :
<http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/altBrowser.htm>
But this would not be a solution for editing.

Sorry to bring disappointing news,

Jan Schenkel.

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