[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: ui Forms / FormText Problem/Question

["javasOK" <pdavis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

folks - forget it - stupid error.

I have the xml parsing ok now.

Now, if I could only get the text to wrap :)


"javasOK" <pdavis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hullo all,
>
> I'm hoping I can get some guidance and help using the FormText widget in
> org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets. I'm after a wrapped read-only text field
with
> simple html tags (<p>) embedded in the content.
>
> When setting the content of the field I'm wrapping that content with a
> <form></form> tags as the FormText doc suggests:
>
>   final FormText recipeInstruction =
> toolkit.createFormText(instructionTextComposite, false);
>   StringBuffer formattedText = new StringBuffer();
>   formattedText.append("<form>");
>   formattedText.append(recipeBean.getInstructionText());
>   formattedText.append("</form>");
>   String s = new String(formattedText.toString()); //debugging only
>
>   recipeInstruction.setText(formattedText.toString(), true, false);
>
> Obviously I'm missing something. When the setText method executes I get
>
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Illegal character or entity reference
syntax.
>
> from this eclipse code:
> FormTextModel.parseInputStream(InputStream, boolean){
> ....
> Document doc = parser.parse(source);
> .....
> }
> I've tried almost everything I can think of in terms of the xml being
passed
> to setText but no magic yet.
>
> <form>hullo</form>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><form>hullo</form>
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><form><p>hullo</p></form>
>
> A working example of text for a TextForm would be very helpful -any
takers?
>
> thanks, Pete
>
>