Using Carbon I store a styled text file in a textarea with the save method.
All the text properties (like text color, size, etc.) are saved with the file.
But if I view this file with a hex editor I can’t find any formatting bytes - so where is it saved? Under Cocoa this is done with backslash chars followed by codes - but as I said - under Carbon it seems to be mystic.
Does anybody know where the format information is stored?
Resource fork?
Hex Edit says that this file has no RSRC fork …
Resource Forks are obsolete if I recall.
HOW are you saving the Data?
I load/save Styled Text via the RTFData property (there are a few other topics here that discuss this as well)
As I said - I save it with the save method of the textarea control.
This item has been DEPRECATED since version 2013r1 and should no longer be used.
Please use TextArea.StyledText.RTFData as a replacement.
I would suggest… since this is deprecated, and CARBON is deprecated… that perhaps it might be in your best interest to update your code.
Hi Dave,
my question was NOT, if I should use Carbon or Cocoa … Meanwhile I use Cocoa.
BUT THIS is my question:
If I view this file with a hex editor I can’t find any formatting bytes - so where is it saved? Under Cocoa this is done with backslash chars followed by codes - but as I said - under Carbon it seems to be mystic.
Does anybody know where the format information is stored?
If you want to test it - here is the file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w10xi9pv1um370x/Cocaine
If you open it with Text Edit you can see the formatting - if you open it with a hex editor you can’t find format bytes …
I think I’ve found it!
As Michael Diehr mentioned, the style information is hidden in a ressource fork named “styl”.
I’ve found it with a program named “rezycle”.
Off topic, but OMG - visions of Resourcerer just jumped to my mind 
Huh, didn’t know O.M.G was censored…