Re: FTCustom Object Question

Bob Keeney wrote:
I'm beginning an application that is going to make heavy use of the FTCustom object and I have a few questions. My custom objects are going to be text and will handle some attributes that FTC doesn't (currently) handle. So ideally I'd like the selection of any combination of text and objects to pass the text attributes into the FTCustom object so that it can update itself properly (or at least look approximately like the user wants). Does that make sense?
Is this possible in the current configuration? If so, how would I go about passing that data into the FTCustom object?
If not currently possible, it's not a big deal and I can explain it away to the client. 

I don't quite understand what you mean by, "I'd like the selection
of any combination of text and objects to pass the text
attributes...".

My guess from your description is that the user selects a range of
text and custom objects and then they invoke functionality to
change an attribute on the selection and you want this to be
propagated to the custom objects? Am I close?

If what I said matches what you are thinking, you can get the
selection range and search the selection for custom objects of the
type you are looking for and call a method on that object to
update its data and then mark the paragraph as dirty and then
call update.


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