V4RB and Valentina and Rich Text Format

[Barry G. Sumpter]

Hi Jon,

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply.

You can save the document as a .rtf file 
in a behind the scenes way via RB.

Is there a way to save the RTFData into Valentina?
varBinary and blob doesn't work.

Is there a way to convert from Little Indian to Big Indian and visa-versa?

Thanks Jon.



Hi Ruslan,

It's NOT the things I don't like.
It's the things like development overhead I have to deal with to keep
Valentina as my DB.
i.e. vague or undecipherable answers, sparse help examples,
and the extra time I have to spend nutting it out myself by using trial and
error.
In this case it would have been cheaper/faster for me
to buy a 3rd party tool and use their control and examples.

I'm happy to have completed the nutting out of the setTextAndStyle myself.
And happy to re-research the RTFData that I couldn't get to work before. 
Just to make sure I haven't missed anything.

And very happy with Valentina DB and Studio speeds.

And very happy that I do get responses to my queries.

All the best,
      Barry G. Sumpter



-----Original Message-----
From: valentina-beta-bounces at lists.macserve.net
[mailto:valentina-beta-bounces at lists.macserve.net] On Behalf Of jda
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 1:45 AM
To: Valentina Beta
Subject: Re: V4RB and Valentina and Rich Text Format

>
>
>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
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