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Re: working with styled text records
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Re: working with styled text records


  • Subject: Re: working with styled text records
  • From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:03:48 -0400

> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:16:19 +1000
> From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
> Subject: working with styled text records

> With Arthur's help I've been able to generate HTML code from styled
> text. The styled text record contains two bits of info, the text
> class and the style class. Arthur has used a bit of educated guess
> work to analyse the style object and figured out bold/italics/etc.

> For those who've never seen one it looks like this:
>
> {+class ktxt;:"ho ho", +class ksty;:+data
> styl000100000000000F000B00030100000B000000000000;}

Shhhhhhhhhh...

Aw, now everyone is going to know... ;-)

> I want to be able to manipulate the style object. Does anyone know
> where I can find out what the style data consists of and how I can
> use it?

I am so lazy. I have been working on and off on a style-object
manipulater for well over a year now, but I keep putting the
project off, (darn that *paying* job of mine, which keeps taking
up so much of my time). ;-)

Here are some links:

<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/text/TextEdit/TextEdit/Da
taTypes/STElement.html>

<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/text/TextEdit/TextEdit/Da
taTypes/ScrpSTElement.html>

The styl you posted above can basically be broken up like this:

styl 0001 00000000 000F 000B 0003 0100 000B 0000 0000 0000

0001 2 byte count of style-runs in the text

00000000 4 byte offset, (0-based), of this style in the text
000F 2 byte font height, (in this case, 15)
000B 2 byte font ascent, (11)
0003 2 byte font id number, (3). On most Macs: Geneva
0100 2 byte bitmap. The high-byte specifies bold, italic, etc
000B 2 byte font point size, (11)
0000 2 byte red of RGB color
0000 2 byte green of RGB color
0000 2 byte blue of RGB color


{ Arthur J. Knapp, of <http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com>
a r t h u r @ s t e l l a r v i s i o n s . c o m
}
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