Setting the text without changing styling

Is there a way to put a text string into an FTEditfield without  
changing the font and font size that is already set up in the  
FTEditfield?  Right now I'm doing this:

FTEditfield.setText "ABC"

This changes all of the font settings - not just the text itself.  To  
correct things, I have to refer back to a saved font style and then  
manually change the style myself after updating the text like this:

FTEditfield.setText "ABC"
FTEditfield.SelectAll
FTEditField.changeFont "Times New Roman"
FTEditField.changeSize 18
FTEditField.changeTextColor &cA0A0A0
FTEditField.DeselectAll


As you can see, there is a whole lot more stuff to do just to do a  
simple text setting.  Am I missing something with this?  It seems to  
me that just calling .setText should not wipe out the current text  
style unless there are rtf commands in there that override this.

Also, if its going to wipe out the text style, what style does it use  
as a replacement?  It seems to me that it should use the style that is  
defined as the .defaultFont, .defaultTextSize, and .defaultTextColor  
but this does not seem to be the case.

Regards,

Ron Benditt
Alien Apparatus Company, Inc.
http://www.alienapparatus.com

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