[wxPython-users] Rich Text Widget

[Werner F. Bruhin]

Hi Marcio,

http://starship.python.net/crew/robind/wxPython/daily/20060923/
http://starship.python.net/crew/robind/wxPython/daily/20060923/CHANGES.txt

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Werner

Marcio Moreira wrote:

> Hello Friends!
>
> Well, I am working on a multi-platform app and I really need an Rich 
> Text widget.
>
> I can't understand what is wrong with TextCtrl since (on Mac OS X) I 
> CAN copy rich text from any other Mac OS native app with different 
> fonts and colors and paste it correctly on my app's wxTextCtrl widgets.
>
> When I saw this behaviour, some time ago, I tought wxTextCtrl could do 
> everything  I needed. I was happy with it. I left text formatting code 
> for latter and worked on other parts of my code (data infrastructure 
> and GUI).
>
> But now, it's time to work on text formatting. I become a bit 
> disapointed when I could not find and method to find where a style 
> begins and ends on a beatiful rich text copied from another app and 
> pasted in my wxPython app. It displays perfectly, everything is there: 
> color, font, size. Why can't I just get such information from the 
> widget and save it to my database?
>
> I tought on using some kind of mixing beetwen wxPython and PyObjC. Is 
> it possible? But I saw I could get in trouble trying latter to find 
> out how to do the same with Windows and Linux native widgets. I choose 
> wxPython exactly because it is multiplatform and so I could avoid this 
> kind of messy code and trouble.
>
> I've heard there's some work been done on rich text for wxPython 2.7. 
> Is that true? When do you expect to release it?
>
> I apologize for my emotion and my bad english. I really appreciate the 
> great work done in wxPython. Congratulations!
>
> Regards,
> Márcio Moreira
>
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