Re: Adapting REditor Example for DB

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 02/14/2002 23:57:33

> Sigh. I wish I had known about that "add styles dynamically" feature

before

> I began tearing my hair out for the last couple of days. Didn't know it

> even existed and didn't see this in the documentation although it's

probably

> there and I missed it when I went through them and all the examples.

It was added quite recently. As far as I remember, it is documented only in

"New in v1.6" section.

You are right, I'll add references to it in several help topics.

> My original suggestion stands however in that I would recommend that you

> develop an database version of the RFEditor example project for peoples

use.

> The database examples you do provide are a bit weak in that only the "B"

> (bold) button is implemeted and you don't really get a feel for what your

> component can do in the database area. Your best example IMHO is the

> RFEditor project and with a bit more polish and a bit more fleashing out

> this would be excellent for use with databases.

Again, I agree. It will be on the next major update.

> Question: Have you ever thought of just providing a drop in unit with form

> so that new users could quickly just "add" them to their projects? This

> wouldn't be hard to do IMHO and would greatly lessen the learning curve

for

> TRichEdit. While TRichEdit can do many things it would seem that the most

> popular function would be basic text formatting.

Coming soon...

(with a very little participation from my side :)

> Another question: Any possibility of building a special quick report

> component to make use of TRichEdit with QuickReport? While separate

printing

> using your provided components is fine it does limit TRichEdits usefulness

> somewhat, especially with databases....

Some day... But there are some other tasks with higher priority.