Hi there,

I was wondering a few things.

1) Is there a table (list view, combo box, etc.), that can show the format codes as they should be? Like if the text was supposed to underlined, it really shows an underline?

2) What is the difference between a rich edit and an edit control (same goes for rich static and static).

Thanks.

2. a Rich control supports the plus format codes (both IRC and BBCode) whereas the normal ones do not and will display them as just text

Hi again,

I was wondering how you do that.

I tried :

code:

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<Attributes><TextMode>Rich Text</TextMode></Attributes>

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1. Unfortunately, there is no such control. Perhaps you could style the items or subitems in a ListViewControl using some sort of Win32 API message, but there's no native way to do this in Plus! itself.
   
2. Actually, the Rich Edit Control doesn't support those tags. However, it does allow you to use PlusWnd::RichEdit_SetCharFormat to set the style of the current selection. This allows you to create a WYSIWYG editor with format buttons (although I have no idea how you would read the format out of the control afterwards).

Okay thanks!

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Originally posted by Matti
2. Actually, the Rich Edit Control doesn't support those tags. However, it does allow you to use PlusWnd::RichEdit_SetCharFormat to set the style of the current selection. This allows you to create a WYSIWYG editor with format buttons (although I have no idea how you would read the format out of the control afterwards).

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XML code:

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        <Control Id="lblWinner" xsi:type="RichStaticControl">
            <Position Top="182" Left="8" Width="185"/>
            <Attributes><Align>Center</Align></Attributes>
            <Caption>[c=#666666]Messenger Plus! [b][c=#FF9900]Live[/c][/b] Script Contest Winner[/c]</Caption>
        </Control>

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Matti was referring to the RichEditControl, not RichStaticControl