Is anyone aware of a control or mechanism i can use to enter simplified plaintext to generate rich text into a TextArea with multiple fonts, colors, styling, etc. Something like using markdown source. I know there’s the HTML control, be nice to find something easier to use.
Thanks.
“Something like using Markdown source” contradicts WYSIWYG styled text editing, so I’m not quite sure what you want. Markdown also doesn’t support fonts or colors… There is a free and open source Markdown parser, but I’m kind of doubting that’s what you seek. GitHub - gkjpettet/MarkdownKit: A Xojo module for converting Markdown to HTML
If you want to use styled text beyond what TextArea can support, you’ll need to use a storage mechanism more complicated, not less. Otherwise, the built in framework styled text features work just fine with the RTFData property for I/O.
Is there a roadblock you are stuck on?