Brendan, This is fantastic!
Can I store the contents of this control (generated on my Mac OS X with some text, graphs etc) into my SQL database, then retrieve it later on and re-display it exactly the same on a Win32 client?
Typing is very fast now on my system (alpha 7 was very slow). What a difference speed makes on my reaction to how useful this might be ;-)
Well done! Gerard
The 8th alpha release of the formatted text project is now available for download. This alpha is very close to becoming a beta and most of the main functionality is in place. The next release after this one will be the first beta and will be made available for inclusion in your own projects. In this alpha I changed the way certain keys are handled, so it should not crash on international keyboard under OS X. I would like to hear from people using non-US keyboard layouts. First, it should not crash on startup. Second, I would like to know if the following keys are functioning properly. arrow keys - move around in the text shift-arrow keys - selects text home, end keys - moves to beginning or the end of the document page up and down keys - moves up and down a page in the document Key pad keys - should be accepted as input All other keys (like the F1-F16 keys) should be ignored other than the normal character keys. URL: http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/Realbasic/FormattedText.html What's new in this release... - You can now set the page size to any size you want. In the test application only three page sizes are implemented. Also, in the test application The left, right, top, and bottom margins are now specified as relative margins to their respective margin in the GUI. - Implemented paragraph styles. In the test application three paragraph styles were implemented. These style will affect all paragraphs spanned by the current selection. If nothing is selected, then the paragraph containing the insertion caret will be changed. - You can set individual paragraph margins and the before and after space of the paragraph. - Added pre and post page drawing events that allow your draw onto the page before and after the content is drawn. This allows you to place page numbers, headers and footers, watermarks, etc. on the page. - You can now set the color of the selected text. - Made it user friendly for allocation of custom objects. - Changed the way certain keys are handled, so it should not crash on international keyboard under OS X. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
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