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O.P. Format Codes and Interface Windows
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.

This post was edited on 10-04-2009 at 12:07 PM by trevorpe.
10-04-2009 12:06 PM
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RE: Format Codes and Interface Windows
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
10-04-2009 12:18 PM
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Hi again,

I was wondering how you do that.

I tried :

code:
<Attributes><TextMode>Rich Text</TextMode></Attributes>

but it doesn't show as underlined, or italic, etc.
10-04-2009 03:16 PM
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RE: Format Codes and Interface Windows
  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).
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Okay thanks!
10-04-2009 04:50 PM
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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).
XML code:
        <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
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