[Second attempt -- I think I wasn't fully subscribed on the first attempt, so here goes again...]
We're evaluating FTC for use in a something like a drawing application -- picture little text objects scattered around the page, and when you click on one, it becomes editable; when you click away or tab out, then it becomes just drawn text on the page again. Ultimately we need to be able to export to PDF (using Asher Dunn's classes), too. Is this a square-peg-in-round-hole situation for FTC, or is it a comfy fit? Specifically:
1. Can FTC be used in some way without a canvas, just telling it to draw some content within given rectangular bounds? Or, telling me where the line breaks are and letting me iterate over style runs and embedded objects, so I can manually draw or export them?
2. Can I make an editable FTC area that's just a rectangular area of a canvas, rather than the whole thing? (I generally try to avoid layer canvases on top of each other, but I guess we could try that if necessary.)
3. Can I link two editable areas together, so that content flows from one to another? (Picture a multi-column newsletter layout, where text that flows off the end of column 1 goes to the top of column 2.)
4. How hard would it be to make an editable area that grows as needed to fit the text? (For this, picture a drawing program like OmniGraffle -- as you add more text, the text box expands downward to fit.)
Thanks, - Joe -- Joe Strout Inspiring Applications, Inc. http://www.InspiringApps.com FTC Website: http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/FormattedTextControl/FormattedTextControl.html Set List Options (digest and vacation modes): www.freelists.org/list/ftcdev List Archive: www.freelists.org/archives/ftcdev Unsubscribe: Send email to ftcdev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the subject field.
