Rich text support in VAdmin and V4MD?

[Panagiotis Apostolellis]

Thanks for the info to everyone.

I eventually managed to make it work, even with an unorthodox way! The key
was to store the rtf encoding inside VStudio and translate the text using
the .rtf property of Director (as Bart proposed). Unfortunately, I think
there is no other way to get the styling from a text, like you propose
Ruslan.

The bad think using this scenario is that the text must be stored inside
VStudio using the tag-formatting of the rtf, which makes the text totally
illegible and not editable. This means that even for simply reading the text
you need to copy-paste it from VStudio to a text editor, then change the
extension to rtf, open, read and edit the text, and then save it, change the
extension to .txt, open and copy-paste (or import) the rtf format back to
VStudio's Content Editor!!! And this must be performed only manually
one-by-one field!!!

Since this is an extremely tiring and time-consuming proccess, Ruslan, is
there any chance that you might implement an rtf field inside Valentina,
within the near future? I mean, the complexity of the procedure is solely
due to the fact that Valentina doesn't have the option of a formatted text
field, which makes cumbersome solutions like this an absolute necessity.

Unless, there's an easiest solution I am missing...

Thanks again for your feedback.

2009/1/23 Ruslan Zasukhin <sunshine at public.kherson.ua>

> On 1/23/09 1:31 PM, "Panagiotis Apostolellis" <takis73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Bart.
> >
> > Your info were the most helpful so far. I understand the two methods and
> > have chosen the SQL way two months ago when I started using Valentina. I
> > didn't understand that when Ruslan spoke about API methods he meant the
> way
> > to manipulate the DB from within Director.
>
> I have talk not about API of Valentina
>
> I mean that in REALbasic developers have some FUNCTIONS from REALbasic
> itself to work with TEXT, to get charsOnly, StyleOnly()
>
> I believe such methods exists in MAC OS itself, and may be in Windows.
>
> May be they exists for Director.
>
> If not - you need check Director docs how styled text is used.
> Do not think on this step about DB. Think about e.g. Styled text in RAM,
> disk file. How Director works with this?  I am not expert of director.
>
> When you know this info, you can take a look on db side to choose how you
> want SAVE this styled text into db.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc
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