>MetaCard uses the property htmlText:
> set the htmlText of fld x to the htmlText of fld y
>
>Advantage: You can put it into variables and manipulate it.
>Disadvantage: You can not use chunk expressions.
And another disadvantage: Using HTMLtext to move style runs from one
field to another is much slower than a method which would copy the style
runs in binary form.
With htmlText, the binary style records attached to a field are read and
html is generated from this. When you got to set the htmlText of the
destination field, this text must be parsed and stuffed back into
whatever internal binary structures MC uses for style runs - much slower
than a one-step copy of the binary form from one field record to another.
With fields containing a lot of styled text, the downside of the current
approach becomes evident quickly.
- Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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