Re: object=object

[Charles Yeomans <yeomans at desuetude dot com>]

On Feb 28, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Joseph Claeys wrote:

> "For Mac builds, it would be EditField2.SetTextAndStyle  
> EditField1.Text,
> EditField1.TextStyleData." Charles Yeomans
>
> So Win doesn't have that option?
>
> Here is where I'm falling down:
>
> I have a function that takes an editfield (or a string it's  
> overloaded), a
> tag, and a dictionary.  So it used to look like this and work just  
> fine:
> s=jp.TagReplace(s,"<<(.*)>>",FieldValues)
>
> S is a textstring that is obtained from a text document and that might  
> look
> like this "<<firstname>> is a student at <<schoolname>> that began
> <<grade>>" etc.  The dictionary has fields and values.  After running
> through my TagReplace Function I get back a real nice string that has  
> all
> the values inserted ::pats himself on the back::
>
> Now I'm passing an editfield...  The original idea was that wouldn't  
> have to
> deal with all that styled nonsense directly.  The editfield is getting  
> the
> same kind of string but from an rtf.  Anyway it seems that I can only  
> get
> back either the text or the style data unless I run it through the  
> function
> twice (or return an ADT that has a couple of properties).  So now I'm
> staring at this:
>
> StyleField.text=jp.TagReplace(StyleField,"<<(.*)>>",FieldValues).text
>
> And wondering how to proceed...  I don't see a single method that will  
> give
> me the style and the text in one fell swoop (I would have thought that
> something called styledtext would do this - but no joy on that count).
>
> Could someone set me straight?  I think I'm missing something really
> fundamental because this seems doable without all the code gymnastics  
> that I
> keep seeing as possible solutions.
Don't replace the entire text of the EditField.  Instead, use  
EditField.SelText to replace only the text that requires replacing.   
See  
<http://www.quantum-meruit.com/rb/Articles/ 
HowDoI.html#editFieldReplace>.
Charles Yeomans

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