Is there a way to make text tag in a TextEdit control ?

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or do you need to make a canvas to handle these ?
thanks.

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What do you mean by “text tag” exactly ?

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[quote=134658:@jean-yves pochez]or do you need to make a canvas to handle these ?
thanks.[/quote]

use the HelpTag property.

TextField.HelpTag = “HELP”

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I dont find any screen copy of what I mean with google.
I want to handle keywords , like the one in iPhoto
so you have some known keyword, and they are editable in a sort of textedit and one keyword is like one character
and they are surrounded with a light blue roundrectangle
it’s not a help tag that I want.
or is there a way to insert pictures in styledtext ? I could make a picture of the keyword and insert it in the text.

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something like this :

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Ah, I see. I would use canvases. I don’t think there’s a way to do this with a normal textedit control.

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It’s called an NSTokenField. It is available in MacOSLib.

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I really would like it to be crossplatform …

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Then you will have to create your own. AFAIK there is no windows counterpart. If there it would probably be in windows functionality suite.

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thanks for these pertinent answers.

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and is there an example of a styled text with picture insertion ?
or again does it have to be build with canvases ?

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[quote=134674:@jean-yves pochez]and is there an example of a styled text with picture insertion ?
or again does it have to be build with canvases ?[/quote]

See Formatted Text Control from BKeeney Software
https://forum.xojo.com/6403-formatted-text-control-3-1-2

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If you’re not looking to use an addon, you would have to do it with a canvas.

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To do it right (for Mac OS X keyboard handling) you’d need to use the Text Input Canvas plugin. That’s available at GitHub - xojo/TextInputCanvas: TextInputCanvas is a plugin for the Xojo programming environment that allows developers to implement custom text input controls with international input support.

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[quote=134675:@Michel Bujardet]See Formatted Text Control from BKeeney Software
https://forum.xojo.com/6403-formatted-text-control-3-1-2[/quote]
I knew this one, but I think it’s too huge for what I want to do
and also not open (thought I completely understand bob keeney wants to earn money with it !)

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[quote=134725:@jean-yves pochez]I knew this one, but I think it’s too huge for what I want to do
and also not open (thought I completely understand bob keeney wants to earn money with it !)[/quote]

I mentioned it since you wanted to do cross platform, that seems like the easiest route.

For Mac, you may want to look into https://forum.xojo.com/8264-any-way-to-insert-graphic-into-textarea/10#p134403