Rich text support in VAdmin and V4MD?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/22/09 3:01 PM, "Panagiotis Apostolellis" <takis73 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Panagiotis, 

> Hello to everyone.
> 
> I would like to know if there is any way to use rich text format (bold,
> italics, undelined) in the VAdmin tool, that would of course be brought into
> Director using the SQLselect() list of commands. I desperately need to
> retain this kind of fomatting in the database (it is lost during import from
> the txt document) and present it in Director.
> 
> Please, advise if anyone has come across this issue and found a workaround.

As I remember to store STYLED text into db people use PAIR of fields

    VarChar and VarBinary

    TEXT    and BLOB

In VarChar or Text is stored text itself so it can be searched and sorted

Into binary fields is stored STYLE info of that text.




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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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