Dr Gerard Hammond wrote:
Can I store the contents of this control (generated on my Mac OS X
with some text, graphs etc) into my SQL database, then retrieve it
later on and re-display it exactly the same on a Win32 client?
Yes you will be able to do that. There is only one caveat in that
there seems to be slight differences in the font sizes between the
different platforms and that is out of my control. There are
things you can do to compensate for that (adjusting the point size
so the heights of the fonts match), but that is better handled in
your application's code. To see the differences, run the Windows
version of test application and compare the output. The formatted
text control will just flow the text with the given font size.
The formatted text project was designed from the ground up with
cross platform compatibility in mind! Compare that to the built in
EditField that RS provides. If you want to do styled text with an
EditField, you are opening up a can of worms in trying to do in
a consistent way since they are relying on the native OS's
implementation for each platform.
Typing is very fast now on my system (alpha 7 was very slow). What a
difference speed makes on my reaction to how useful this might be ;-)
You are probably thinking alpha 6. Alpha 7 contained major speed
enhancements. Though alpha 8 had a couple of things that will
speed things up, but that was not the focus of alpha 8. Upcoming
betas will contain even more speed enhancements.
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