Josh Mellicker wrote:
I have a text field, with blocks of text deliniated with the "\" character.
I am trying to figure out the best way to attach "metadata" to this
character.
The first thing I thought of is that I could alter the color of the
character, that would give me three data values up to 255 each (which
would probably be enough, but might look weird). I could use the "blue"
value to point to a separate numbered group of data with multiple
fields, for example, but this complicates the overall scheme, perhaps
needlessly.
I can't use the position of the character or the order of the delimiters
as an absolute, because the user will be typing and deleting in the
field, copying and pasting sections of the text, so each "\" character
will be moved around quite a bit, but I need it to retain special info.
I need the character to be visible so the user doesn't accidentally
highlight a section, cut it and paste it elsewhere without grabbing the
"\" character.
I might go the direction of experimenting with the htmlText of the
field, to see if I can put custom tags in without affecting the display,
and see if the tags care copied and pasted properly... but I'm not sure
what dangers might arise if I mess with the htmlText too much.
I need something like custom properties of a single character...
Ideas?
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Here's one...
If you aren't using links for anything else, you could use the link
style on the character of your choice. You could then set its href
attribute to pretty much anything you like, and retrieve that value
easily. RR won't change it behind your back, and the attribute will
travel with it when copied. You can manipulate this without fussing
around with htmltext.
Martin Baxter
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