[V4MD] Intermittent setMedia

Scott Runkel srunkel at hypix.com
Wed May 12 09:54:23 CDT 2004


> > Why not put RTF of member into field ?
>
> Hyperlink data is not preserved via RTF. Try it. And HTML hardly works at
all -- 
> formatting gets all off, fonts change, and hyperlinks go away.
>
> > If you put the member into blob, you are putting binary into blob.
>
> I don't grasp your point here -- yes, it's putting binary into blob. Doesn't
> BLOB stand for Binary Large Object?

I want to elaborate a bit further here. The 2nd paragraph of the V4MD Reference
states that you can use Valentina to manage "...any type of media that Director
can store in its members." Ruslan -- or anyone -- is there some better way to
store Director's #Text members, complete with all formatting, hyperlinks, HTML,
RTF, image, and other attributes that #Text members contain? Is there some
secret that I'm missing? In fact, is there *any* other way to store a #Text
member, other than BLOB, without breaking it apart into RTF, HTML, and its
hyperlinks data and then recompositing them later? I want to be doing what makes
sense, and when BLOB works for member.media, it works perfectly.

Thanks.

Scott Runkel
Director of Technology
Hypix Media, Inc.
503-722-2123




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