[V4MD] Intermittent setMedia

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/12/04 7:54 PM, "Scott Runkel" <srunkel at hypix.com> wrote:

>>> 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?

No.

Only limitation in usage of SetMedia() is that such data can be read back
only by Director. Not rEALbasic not Valentina studio will not read them.s

> 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.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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