Re: FTCustom Object Question

Bob Keeney wrote:
Will this mean that I'll have to subclass the FormattedText control to override the existing functionality or is there some pre-existing hook for this? 

I am not sure what attribute you are looking to implement, so I'll
call it "xxx". From your description xxx is not supported by the
FTC, so you need to implement this yourself and therefore it only
applies to content of your custom object. The algorithm I
described before will do the job. Let's say you have a button that
applies the attribute, then in that button you would do what I
described. Don't forget to set up the undo for the custom object
if that functionality is desired.

If you are looking to apply it "to all the text" in the in the
selection, that is a different story and will require messing with
the guts of the FTC (thus creating a subclass in your case). An
example of this would be implementing full justification on a
paragraph. Such a change needs to be made in the FTC itself which
would be my job. Style run based attribute changes require a lot
of changes throughout the code to properly support them and is not
something I would advise you to do. Follow the strikethrough
attribute and you will see what is required. There are no hooks in
the code for what you want to do.

So the question is do you want to apply this just to the custom
objects within a selection or the entire selection (i.e., all the
style runs)?

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