RichText Implementation

Jim Lyons teacherjim42 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 22:18:29 EDT 2006


Another way to solve this problem easily and elegantly, with far more 
capabilities than you ask for, with off-the-shelf components:

1. Forget about Rich Text Format.

2. Get a copy of altBrowser from Altuit.

3. Learn CSS. 8^)

Quite seriously,
Jim Lyons

On Aug 13, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Jan Sælid wrote:

> Hi André and Dan
>
> I will definitively keep you updated! If I can do anything about this, 
> it's
> for everyone. I will post my stack online under Jan Selid, if I feel 
> I'm
> remotely close to anything.
>
> There are 3 big tasks that needs to be done.
> 1. Individual margins
> 	The only solution I have right now is tabstops.
>
> 2. A custom wordwrapper that calculates the wordwrap based on the above
> tabstops.
>
> 3. an rtf-exporter
> 	A handler that converts the above tabstops to the proper "li"-number
> of the rtf-code.
> 	Since rev already has RTFText property, this is, I believe, not too
> difficult.
>
>  - and, as you said, calculations when using different fonts.
>
> It's a huge task, and your interest surely helps ;-)
>
> André wrote:
>> I am following attentively your attempt to "simulate" a richtext 
>> field.
>> I hope you will keep informing us about the problems you are 
>> encountering
> and your solutions.
>
>
>
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