Trouble with RTFData to String

General
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I have this method from Xojo 2013 which is not placing RTFData string into the string myStr in Xojo 2018.

dim myStr as String myStr=rs_letter.Field("wp_letter_").StringValue myStr= DefineEncoding(myStr, encodings.UTF8) WordProcessor_container1.TextArea1.StyledText.RTFData = myStr

When I check for data in rs_letter.Field(“wp_letter_”).StringValue, it looks exactly like the RTFData in Xojo 2013, but it doesn’t seem to transfer to myStr. When I look in the debugger, myStr is empty.

2

Break at the dim, and step each line to see which clears it.

3

Figured it out.

Switched rs_letter.Field(“wp_letter_”).StringValue to rs_letter.Field(“wp_letter_”).NativeValue and everything works again.

Thanks.

4

You know that the rtf code already have a text encoding ?

If you do not know, read the file as text and check the rtf “header” (text definition before {\fonttbl) with the rtf language reference.

5

Check this page (it also have a link to the rtf reference in the Microsoft web pages):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format

6

Try this: https://github.com/deblauweg/RTFBox

Dim rtf As New clsRTFBox_Data
Dim strText As String

rtf.SetRTF(strRTF)
strText = rtf.GetText

7

Whoa! Look at the license first.

You MUST make your source code available if you use this! :stuck_out_tongue:

… but you CAN use it commercially. Yeah, right. :wink:

8

And Davis Schlam does not show sign of life since two days…

9

Is it? I just want changes that were made to these classes to return and not be held liable, not your entire sourcecode.

10

That’s how I read https://tldrlegal.com/license/eclipse-public-license-1.0-(epl-1.0)

I guess the one to use is LGPL? see for example xojo-option-parser/LICENSE.md at master · jcowgar/xojo-option-parser · GitHub

GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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11

Just so you know: changed the license to LGPLv3