Thanks for the "linktext" idea...
On Sep 21, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
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.
Great point. I will trap all possible delete keystrokes and if they
are about to delete a metadata character, they will get an alert.
I can't think of another way to break up a large block of text into
individual "passages"
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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