[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Saving and retrieving StyledText to/from

[Nick Edgar <nick_edgar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure, but when you copy text from the Java editor, it includes 
styling information when you paste it into Word or a mailer.  It should 
be possible to convert the text and styling into RTF or something.
I recommend posting this question in the SWT newsgroup.

Nick

Alex Chan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying out a simple process of entering text into a text field 
> within my RCP application, applying several styles such as bold and 
> italics to the selected portion of the text entered, and then save it 
> into my database via MySQL.
>
> So far, I have managed to get the intended & selected portion of the 
> text to display the correct styles on my UI application (upon executing 
> bold or italic functions but before saving to the database). The 
> function I used also allows me to revert back to my original text before 
> formatting by running through the same function again.
>
> However, I am currently wondering how would I be able to save the text 
> into my database, retrieve and display them on my UI application with 
> the correct formatting?
>
> A troublesome method I have figured out so far would be applying 
> specific tags for each style and append them to the text before saving 
> the entire string into the database. Upon retrieval, I would have to 
> detect for these tags and run thru the appropriate function again.
>
> Could anyone out there help me out or point me in the right direction on 
> this issue? Thanks a lot!.
>
> Cheers