Formatted Text

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Mon Oct 13 18:09:28 EDT 2008


Hi Tom,

You can try to use the rtfText or htmlText properties. The put command  
transfers plain text, but if you set the rtfText of a field to the  
rtfText of another field, the formatting is preserved.

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On 14 okt 2008, at 00:03, Thomas Cole wrote:

> I'm using Studio 2.8.1   I want to have a field into which information
> will be placed when someone clicks a button. I want bolding and  
> italics
> and such to be in the field. However, when I format text in a field on
> another card so that this text will be transferred to the other field,
> the formatting disappears.
> "Put cd fld formattedtext into card fld "wantsformattedtext" doesn't
> retain the formatting, bold, italic, etc.
>
> What's the smart way to do this?
>
> Thanks!
> Tom




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