On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 10:50 PM, Troy wrote:
I’m new to Revolution, but I am a professional Windows developer with about 10 years of experience mostly in VC++ and VB. ?I have a couple of questions I was hoping someone could answer:
Welcome!
1)??????Is it possible to access the Windows API (and the equivalent on other O/S’s) from within Revolution?
Not directly. A couple of ways to go.
1) write your own "external" to connect with the C/C++/whatever APIs of your choice. An "external" in our lingo is a compiled module that defines transcript commands and handlers - the bodies of which are implemented in languages other than transcript. It's not a lot of work do write an external, but the documentation for the SDK is practically nonexistent so far.
2) shell() out and use rundll32.exe See win002 - Using Rundll32 For Administrative Functions http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm
3) something else I'm forgetting
2)??????As part of an application we’re trying to develop, we would need a text field with word processor-like features.?By this I mean:
a.??????Changing font size/type/color/bold/italic/underline of a word or words (without changing the entire field)
b.??????Being able to insert an image right into the text field
c.??????Adding a table
d.??????Having a bulleted list of items (numbered and un-numbered)
e.??????Setting the alignment (left/center/right/justify) for a paragraph independent of the other paragraphs
f.????????Highlighting text
I’m just trying to find out if this is possible, first of all, and if someone could possibly point me in the direction of what to look for in the Revolution documentation.
Word processor-like! "-like" being the operative concept there :-) The Rev IDE for example is written in Rev, and the script editor is sort of word processor-like. Take a look at these entries in the transcript dictionary as a start
textFont textSize textStyle htmltext rtftext imagesource vgrid, hgrid, showlines chunk expressions
You will find that the typesetting capabilities of Rev are not meant to be really word processor-like. For example you can't anchor an image or flow text around an image in a field. Alignment is per field, not per chunk or per paragraph. You probably would have to use multiple fields, buttons and images, arranged on your card, to accomplish the layout you want.
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