Dr Gerard Hammond wrote:
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?
Yes you will be able to do that. There is only one caveat in that there seems to be slight differences in the font sizes between the different platforms and that is out of my control. There are things you can do to compensate for that (adjusting the point size so the heights of the fonts match), but that is better handled in your application's code. To see the differences, run the Windows version of test application and compare the output. The formatted text control will just flow the text with the given font size. The formatted text project was designed from the ground up with cross platform compatibility in mind! Compare that to the built in EditField that RS provides. If you want to do styled text with an EditField, you are opening up a can of worms in trying to do in a consistent way since they are relying on the native OS's implementation for each platform.
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 ;-)
You are probably thinking alpha 6. Alpha 7 contained major speed enhancements. Though alpha 8 had a couple of things that will speed things up, but that was not the focus of alpha 8. Upcoming betas will contain even more speed enhancements. _______________________________________________ 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>
