Rich text support in VAdmin and V4MD?

[Bart Pietercil]

Hi,

why don't you use Director ?
What I proposed was:
1) import the RTF's into Director Text castmembers. Here you can edit  
them as you like.
2) create a table inside valentina with fields castmember_id,  
castmember_name (or whatever makes you identify the correct  
textmember) and a textfield where you can store the textmembers rtf  
property.
As a side point I still think it is better to store the html property  
(but that is not important for the workflow).
3) write a routine in Director to retrieve and store (update) edited  
castmembers.

This way you always will be sure Director is displaying the members as  
you want.

Bit (well ok, byte) confused,

hth

Bart

On 28 Jan 2009, at 09:53, Panagiotis Apostolellis wrote:

> 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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>>
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>>
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