Stephen Tang wrote:
>
> Is there any way to have different kinds of text in a field? That is, I'd
> like to show the majority of the text in the standard font, but have some
> of it bold or underlined or both. From what I've understand the field APIs
> restrict all text in a field to having the same display properties.
>
> If this isn't possible, then it seems to me that I'd have to use the
> Windows character drawing functions to put specially formatted text on the
> screen, but this seems like it would be a bit time-consuming so I'd rather
> not do this if I didn't have to.
>
> I've seen this sort of thing done before in the Peanut eBook reader
> (http://www.peanutpress.com) and the ProxiWeb browser
> (http://www.proxiweb.com/).
>
> Stephen Tang
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In order to do something like this, you pretty much have to do everything
yourself. Yeah, it's not pretty, but there it is. You might be able to
find more help by searching the archives here:
http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/index.html
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