Josh,
Attaching data to a character that can very easily be deleted by the
user sounds like a very bad idea. Don't do it. I'd re-think my
interface and if you tell more about the purpose of this feature,
I'll gladly help.
Best,
Mark
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Op 21-sep-2006, om 19:37 heeft Josh Mellicker het volgende geschreven:
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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