[Gambas-user] R: Fitting RichtText into several limited areas

[Fabien Bodard]

So this is my two cents. It's not optimized i should do better if i've
time. I will use something like this in a near time for reportLabels.

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Fabien Bodard

2015-12-04 13:04 GMT+01:00 Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at ...221...>:
> I don't think so, because it describes the wideth of a single line of
> richtext.
>
> Paint.Richtext or Paint.DrawRichtext accept a Height for the textframe,
> but it is practically unused. The function goes on drawing beyond this
> point. This is where you would have to start helping.
>
> Let's see what would be necessary to do what I was looking for,
> something pseudo code:
>
> frameLength = 70 'mm
>
> sRtext = File.Load("myrichtext")
>
> If Paint.RichTextHeight(sRtext) > frameLength Then
>
>      'if it stopped drawing at 70 mm
>      Paint.DrawRichText(sRtext, x1, y1, width, frameLength)
>    Paint.DrawRichText(RSTring.Mid(sRtext, RichTextLength(sRtext,
> frameLength) + 1, x2, y2, W, frameLength)
>
>      'like it is now, not stopping, with special cutting function
>      Paint.DrawRichText(RString.Left(sRtext, RichTextLength(sRtext,
> frameLength)), x1, y1, W, frameLength)
>      Paint.DrawRichText(RString.Mid(sRtext, RichTextLength(sRtext,
> frameLength) + 1, x2, y2, W, frameLength)
>
> Else
>
>      Paint.DrawRichText(sRtext, x1, y1, width, frameLength)
>
> Endif
>
>
> So, this is just phantasy, but does it make it clearer? A class RString
> would be needed, and a function that finds the position of the last
> printable character in a RichText of given width. But I know, catenating
> of these tagged strings would mean interpreting them, it's rather tricky...
>
> Regards
> Rolf
>
>
> Am 04.12.2015 12:05, schrieb Ru Vuott:
>> Hello,
>>
>> ...could .Font.RichTextWidth() function help you ?
>>
>> vuott
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Ven 4/12/15, Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at ...221...> ha scritto:
>>
>>   Oggetto: [Gambas-user] Fitting RichtText into several limited areas
>>   A: "mailing list for gambas users" <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
>>   Data: Venerdì 4 dicembre 2015, 10:01
>>
>>   Can I somehow predict where a
>>   RichText will be too long for a box of
>>   text on a page, then cut it there, and let the rest flow
>>   into another box?
>>
>>   You all know this from DTP programs: you have several text
>>   frames, and
>>   text is running on from one frame into the next if too
>>   long.
>>
>>   I guess this isn't possible because there seems to be no
>>   intelligent
>>   helper function that can handle RichText strings like e. g.
>>   UTF-8
>>   strings are handled in contrary to ASCII strings. As far as
>>   I can see,
>>   RichText is simply a UTF-8 string containing a lot of XML
>>   tags. A
>>   special Left, Mid or Right function would have to
>>   reconstruct these tags
>>   for the other part of the string to keep the tags
>>   functionable.
>>
>>   A workaround would be to extract the pure text and store the
>>   tagged
>>   values somewhere else until the text has been cut apart. But
>>   it would
>>   make the whole automatic in RichText senseless.
>>
>>   But maybe I just didn't find this functionality?
>>
>>   Regards
>>   Rolf
>>
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