On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Nov 14, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Ryan Dary wrote:
This is an interesting question: "For routine use, the EditField
as it is works fine, doesn't it?"
Yes and no. It does work, but on Mac OS X it sure does lack some
of the available options that other Carbon apps have. The
EditField is primitive and doesn't support some of the niceties
that other apps offer such as inline spellchecking (which is huge).
I'd agree.
Not sure what RB's underlying OS control is but it almost seems
like it's the ancient text edit tuff and not the mlte stuff
Actually, I believe the EditField in MacOS X builds uses ATSUI and
other hot technologies.
But are they using MLTE ? Or entirely using ATSUI in their own code ?
If it's ATSUI they wrote in their own control then that makes it
clear why the capabilities of the editfield are the way they are.
If they are using MLTE then it should be easier to enabled a lot more
capabilities (like spell checking) since that's a feature of MLTE as
I'm sure you already know.
This would include being able to read and write RTF files (see
TXNReadFromCFURL) in which it states "Document attributes are
supported only for the rich text file formats supported by MLTE,
which are RTF and MLTE native file format."
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