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by anothergol
Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:00 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Is TRichView what I'm looking for?
Replies: 8
Views: 18321

I see Get/SetFontHandle, do you use them in important places?

Do you believe the control is also suitable for a simple single-line edit btw?
by anothergol
Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:33 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Is TRichView what I'm looking for?
Replies: 8
Views: 18321

Thanks, will check them in depth.
by anothergol
Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:12 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Is TRichView what I'm looking for?
Replies: 8
Views: 18321

Seems good to me. I don't mind hacking the base sources in depth anyway, we've done this for everything we've used so far, sure it makes updating more difficult, but when it works we rarely need updates. Text drawn in substrings is good, it will allow to preserve float inter-character spacing as ...
by anothergol
Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:22 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Is TRichView what I'm looking for?
Replies: 8
Views: 18321

Honestly, I am not sure. One thing is to render a document on some special canvas using non-GDI methods. Well, I believe my non-GDI methods are much easier (nothing can be more limited than GDI), however I probably haven't implemented (but it's doable) all the text functions that you're using. Also ...
by anothergol
Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:25 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Is TRichView what I'm looking for?
Replies: 8
Views: 18321

Is TRichView what I'm looking for?

Hello, We're in the process of enhancing Delphi's VCL to allow custom painting of graphic controls, somewhere in between the current VCL & FireMonkey. Because it cares about backwards compatibility, we don't have to rewrite every control, however the Windows RichEdit has a bug (or feature) that ...