Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-04 Thread Ian Wood
Votes added. Ian On 4 Mar 2010, at 00:37, Richard Gaskin wrote: This inconsistency seems worth addressing, since doing so has practical application as you've noted, so I logged it as a request: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8645

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Mar 3, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ian Wood wrote: I just had a quick try but can't see how to apply a backgroundpattern to anything less than the whole field. Mea culpa. According to the dictionary RevTalk allows backgroundColor for chunks, and backgroundPattern for

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-04 Thread Ian Wood
On 4 Mar 2010, at 12:42, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Is this one of those why not just do it, looks simple things that runs into the apparently huge complexity of the field object? Which I seem to recall Scott Raney describing as the monster it terms of complexity. That could well be.

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Brigham wrote: On Mar 3, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... According to the dictionary RevTalk allows backgroundColor for chunks, and backgroundPattern for fields, and textPattern/ foregroundPattern for chunks, so I was a little optimistic about the orthogonality of the

Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Wood
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. It would certainly save me a lot of time if this could be done in Rev, so maybe it's time to look from a different direction - how do we make a Rev field as OS X-like as possible. On 3 Mar 2010, at 04:00, Scott McDonald wrote: The look of the spell

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-03 Thread Scott McDonald
Ian, Ian Wood-3 wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. It would certainly save me a lot of time if this could be done in Rev, so maybe it's time to look from a different direction - how do we make a Rev field as OS X-like as possible. I understand why the RRP SpellCheck

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott McDonald wrote: But you are right, the Rev field is not native enough for your users. For example, the way of marking unknown words when doing the contextual check was something I thought about a lot during the design. anything but dashed red underlining is going to leap out While

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Wood
On 3 Mar 2010, at 21:24, Scott McDonald wrote: I understand why the RRP SpellCheck doesn't meet your needs, and you have certainly made several comments that give me ideas to work on. Thanks for taking the in the way it was meant! That's partly why I changed the direction towards ways of

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Wood
I just had a quick try but can't see how to apply a backgroundpattern to anything less than the whole field. Do you have some example syntax for setting it for part of a field? Ian On 3 Mar 2010, at 22:03, Richard Gaskin wrote: Have you tried a transparent GIF or PNG with the dash near the

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
Concur. Text chunks cannot have that property. Bob On Mar 3, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Ian Wood wrote: I just had a quick try but can't see how to apply a backgroundpattern to anything less than the whole field. Do you have some example syntax for setting it for part of a field? Ian On 3

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ian Wood wrote: I just had a quick try but can't see how to apply a backgroundpattern to anything less than the whole field. Mea culpa. According to the dictionary RevTalk allows backgroundColor for chunks, and backgroundPattern for fields, and textPattern/foregroundPattern for chunks, so I