StyledEditor

Is there a way to have a basic styled text area editor ?

Something like this :

If you have access to MBS plugins then you can put this in the Opening event of a DesktopTextArea

Me.NSTextViewMBS.usesInspectorBar = True

And you’ll get an editor like this

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is mac windows and also linux I presume, far more capable than macos textedit…

also this one for macos only, and no plugin, does the same as previous post without plugin.

TextArea_OSX_Declares3.zip (86.9 KB)

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To get the ruler you can add this to the opening as well:

Me.NSTextViewMBS.RulerVisible = True

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Hi @Mark_Sweeney what’s the Ruler? I can’t see any difference …

la régle, avec marqué les numero et tab

I can.

First, a normal field:

With usesInspectorBar:

Then with RulerVisible:

And finally, with both:

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Is it possible to attach the inspector bar to the field and not to the window ?