Re: Using the FTC as an editor, then drawing rendered text

I'm designing this with one FTC editor that I reuse for each of the elements that contain text. So, the user would click on an element on their drawing and an editor window pops up. If they click on a rectangle, they can choose the border and background color. If they choose a "text" element, then I popup an FTC editor window. The user edits the content and clicks okay. Then I update the text element on the drawing with the newly styled text. It is that last step of drawing the text on my custom drawing element that I'm wanting to do.
So, I'm wondering if I can use the "back-end" of FTC in order to perform the rendering in my custom objects, without the FTC GUI elements. 

Does that make sense?
It would be nice if I could use FTDocument to perform the drawing without needing to use the FormattedText control. 

- Ryan

Peter Karlsson wrote:

Why use XML, can't you grab formattedtext.display instead, as in:

  Dim pic as Picture

  // you have to make display public first

  pic = NewPicture(g.Width, g.Height, 32)

  pic.Graphics.DrawPicture(me.display, 0, 0)

You'll get at picture you scale as you like in your other canvas.


Peter Karlsson



30 dec 2008 kl. 11.25 skrev Ryan Dary:
Hello. Perhaps this question has been asked before, please excuse the repetition.
I'm using FTC as an editor for a drawing program. In the window, I'm using a single canvas to render the drawn elements. Currently I draw shapes and text, but the text is only in a single font. I want to use the FTC editor in a separate window when the user double-clicks on the text object in the drawing. Then, let them edit the text, and then I'll render it again in the drawing.
It looks like the XML-based format is best for moving between instances of FTC in order to retain the most information about formatting and custom objects.
Then, how do I use the FTC engine to only render the formatted text in my custom canvas-based implementation. I just need to use the necessary facilities to accept the XML that was gathered from the FTC editor, and somehow "render" it in my own graphics context.
Perhaps a better way to phrase the question is, how do I go from XML from the FTC and then "render" the formatted text offscreen so that I can draw it to my custom canvas-based drawing environment? 

Please advise.

Thank you,

Ryan
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