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From: Jarvis Badgley <chiper at chipersoft dot com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:17:26 -0700
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On May 20, 2004, at 6:39 PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

At 4:25 PM -0600 5/20/04, Travis Hill wrote:

Then perhaps this new Canvas-based code editor should eventually be exposed as a component for us to use, since it apparently gets around some limits of the current native implementations on Windows and Linux.

The limitations it gets around are primarily things which are useful for editing code but not for editing text in general, such as drawing the block guides.


Personally I would just love to have any kind of canvas class that is capable of replacing an editfield, assuming it was open for me to edit. Then I could tweak it as I need to do what I want, like special formatting of text. Actually, I don't even need text input, just text display and the ability to copy/drag text from the field.

The two hardest problems with trying to make a working canvas based multi-line editfield are getting wrapping with text styles, and text highlighting for copy/paste/drag. You guys probably aren't doing any word wrapping, but the text highlighting routines would be a godsend.

Sorry if this is double posted, it never returned back to me so I sent it again.

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