Is it possible to convert Textarea1.styledtext to binary without the use of folderitems?
Could you elaborate ? This makes very little sense.
Get an eye on the documentation for StyleRun
.
You will find there an example to save the styles into a file.
BUT: FolderItem
is needed to create, read and write files
Now, if you do not want to display an Open dialog to the user, it is possible: GetFolderItem.
This is what I want to do:
The user pasts selected text from say, Word or PDF files to the Textarea.
I want to store this in a db, preserving the formats - an RTF
On demand this can than be retrieved with the style intact and printed, etc
I know how to do this with folderitems, but was wondering whether there is
another way to do this.
Simply store TextArea.StyledText.RTFData
in a field of your database. It is pure ASCII and does not require any special step.
Upon Retrieval, simply do the reverse
TextArea.StyledText.RTFData = whateverdatafromthedb
Thank you Michel.
I had looked at the RTFData property.
It never occurred to me to use it.
All problems solved and sooooo easy