V4RB and Valentina and Rich Text Format

[jda]

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>But even RAM-based REALBasic API provides in clean way two parts of RTF:
>    text and style.

Hi Ruslan,

That's not RTF he is storing. It is text (characters) and style 
(binary). RTF is only text (and contains formatting markup).

Instead of saving the text and text style separately, you can 
save/restore the actual rtf itself (in RB, this is 
StyledText.RTFData).

If you do save/restore the text and  TextStyleData separately, beware 
that you can run into endian issues when you restore the 
editfield/textarea. That is, if you save the TextStyleData on a big 
endian machine (i.e. a PPC Mac) and then move the db to an Intel Mac, 
the TextStyleData will no longer be valid. You'd have to convert it 
to little endian.

Jon