The blog sure is quite

[Dermot]

The blog sure is quite. Anymore 7.0 goodies to share?

[Brett]

I was in Florida last week plus, it was a Canadian holiday on Monday... but I was just thinking I should leak another feature... soon... ;)

[Solmos]

Hello Brett

Pretty blog

Please include creating multiple windows

And another question

More or less by the time the list will be published version of autoplay 7.0?

[Brett]

OK, there you go - another feature sneak preview... check the blog...

[RizlaUK]

ah, that was like a slap in the face with a wet kipper, i got all excited only to find its the RTF object that we already knew was there from the 7.0 screenshot :p

ah, only kidding, that is very cool, as i have a very nice RTF editor dll so generously suppled by someone who shall remain nameless ;) (and im not passing it on so dont even ask) this will enable me to totally give users of my apps true RTF functionally, cant wait..........

[Dermot]

Thanks Brett. That is fantastic. I was dying to know more about the new RTF feature. It's everything I had hoped for and more.:yes:yes

As well, the object exposes actions that allow you to provide rich editing capabilities to your users and dynamically format the text at runtime.
I like that.

[yosik]

Thanks Brett, this is a great feature and one we have been waiting for quite a while.
Dying to start working with the new version......

Yossi

[RizlaUK]

that allow you to provide rich editing capabilities to your users

ok *RizlaUK drops head in shame for not reading blog properly*

dose that mean that app users will be able to actually edit rich text on the fly in a input (type) object ?

[Lorne]

ok *RizlaUK drops head in shame for not reading blog properly*

dose that mean that app users will be able to actually edit rich text on the fly in a input (type) object ?Yes. The RichText object is similar to the Input object in that way; you can make it read only (in which case the user can select the text, but not modify it), or allow the user to edit the text.

Cool tidbit: The RichText object has an On Link event which gets triggered when someone clicks on an embedded link within the text. You can respond to those links any way you want, for instance by opening a website or even jumping to another page.

[goukilord10]

will there be RichText in other objects ? like the list box ?

[Dermot]

Yes. The RichText object is similar to the Input object in that way; you can make it read only (in which case the user can select the text, but not modify it), or allow the user to edit the text.
Fantastic! If it is in edit mode, will it have a formating toolbar or is that something we would have to create our own with buttons etc?

Cool tidbit: The RichText object has an On Link event which gets triggered when someone clicks on an embedded link within the text. You can respond to those links any way you want, for instance by opening a website or even jumping to another page.
Now that will be cool. Wth the transparent background, I can see this being used as a menu system.:yes

[Intrigued]

I was in Florida last week plus, it was a Canadian holiday on Monday... but I was just thinking I should leak another feature... soon... ;)

Should have let me know.. I could have met ya and bought ya a dinner and a brew.

:o

[Lorne]

Fantastic! If it is in edit mode, will it have a formating toolbar or is that something we would have to create our own with buttons etc?Something that you will need to create on your own. But there is a lot of functionality in the actions -- in fact far more than is exposed in the object properties.

[Dermot]

Something that you will need to create on your own. But there is a lot of functionality in the actions -- in fact far more than is exposed in the object properties.
That way we can make it look how we want and expose as much as we want so that is probably a good thing. It's time to start creating some nice text formatting buttons.:)

[Intrigued]

Something that you will need to create on your own. But there is a lot of functionality in the actions -- in fact far more than is exposed in the object properties.

Ah, now I'm really itching to try it out.

:yes

[RizlaUK]

Something that you will need to create on your own.

well thats still pretty cool, i already have a set of buttons fit for the task from my last release of bbcoder (maybe short a few) guess i'll get to work on the rest ready for the release

will there be RichText in other objects ? like the list box ?

one thing i would like to see in the listbox, if not multi columns then at least alternate back colors, i dont think we will see rich text though (iv never seen such in any dev apps iv used...PB..VB..GML..DB)

[Intrigued]

I agree, the last application I did the client wanted me to allow for the "depressed, like a button in the down state look" for the Listbox item that was selected, or at least to be able to change the background color. Luckly he allowed me to skip that request.

[Intrigued]

This looks interesting and not to pricey, from the standpoint of a company purchase for AMS:

http://www.subsystems.com/tewf.htm

[TJ_Tigger]

What a tease post. Where are the screen shots or apps built in AMS 7 showing these cool features? wink wink nudge nudge.

[eric_darling]

It looks like this will pretty much make the paragraph object obsolete, no? It seems to do everything that the paragraph object does, plus some things. So, I'd like to hear if there's any reason to use paragraph object instead of rich text object in the new version other than for backwards compatibility with 6.0 and earlier projects?

[Lorne]

Here are a couple off the top of my head:

Paragraph object is skinnable, the RichText object is not.

Like the Input object, the RichText object can be set read only, but you can still select (highlight) its text with the mouse.

[Dermot]

If the new RTF object can be transparent, does that mean other objects like Input, ListBox can be also? That would be nice. Especially the ListBox.

[Brett]

If the new RTF object can be transparent, does that mean other objects like Input, ListBox can be also? That would be nice. Especially the ListBox.

No, none of the other objects above support transparency at this point. Unfortunately, making a windowed common control (ListBox, etc) have a transparent background is remarkably difficult at best and impossible to get working right. Maybe eventually we will custom code those controls so that we can get away from those restrictions, but for now that is the way it is.