> At 08:03 AM 10/14/99 -0400, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> >I don't think that it would be a big deal if you are just looking at
> >the unformatted text in the preview (as opposed to a mixed combination
> >of fonts, styles, sizes etc). We got editable text boxes on BeOS to
> >ya know =;-). Of course an XP solution would rock, but I'd be happy
> >to make the text box editable.
>
> Yeah, for richer formatting, we'll definitely want an XP solution. Later.
>
> Even now, I'm not sure we can do without formatting entirely, though. The
> current read-only preview isn't completely unformatted -- it changes the
> color of the misspelled word in context.
>
> On GTK, this capability is built into the basic editable text control.
> On Win32, we have to switch from an edit control to a rich edit control.
>
> Any ideas on how we should handle this now using existing BeOS widgets?
I should be able to provide some colour highlighting for the problem
word. I'm more interested in knowing how this stream of text
will get re-inserted into the document without loosing format
information.
[ascii art deleted]
I'll use the ascii art method as a fallback position if required.
Thomas
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