On 6 Jul 1999, Jean-Jacques Wagner wrote:
> >PS: as for people who are asking that style information be kept in
> >variables, you're dreaming. Implementation of virtually every
> >command, function, and keyword would have to be altered to preserve
> >style information. Off the top of my head, the only practical way I
> >can think of to do it would be to expand every character into a long,
> >which would expand everything by 4 and cut performance by about that
> >much.
> >
>
> Ok! Appreciate.
> The format of styled field seems to be complexe. It would be quite simple,
> if it would have a bloc containing plain text information and an other
> containing styled information. Well!
That's how it's commonly done at the field level (the MacOS TextEdit
control does this, for example). But wouldn't work very well for
variables because there'd be awful problems figuring out what to do in
some cases. It'd be like the infamous resource-fork/no-resource-fork
problem when moving data files between Windows and MacOS, but much
worse.
Regards,
Scott
> Jean-Jacques Wagner
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