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

Brendan,

Thanks, that's excellent!

- Ryan

Brendan Murphy wrote:
> Ryan Dary wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I must have a misunderstanding about this, because it
>> doesn't work.  Can you tell me where I went wrong?  I saw your step
>> about "getDisplay", but it looks like that returns a Graphics object,
>> not a picture, so I'm not sure how I could use that in this case.
>>
>> I'm sure you'll find the holes in my thinking.
> 
> 
> My bad. getDisplay returns a graphics object so you can draw into
> it. What you want is the picture so that you can draw it into your
> target display. So add the following function to the FormattedText
> class and use this to get the picture of the display.
> 
> Function getDisplayPicture() As Picture
> 
>    #if not DebugBuild
> 
>      #pragma BoundsChecking FTC_BOUNDSCHECKING
>      #pragma NilObjectChecking FTC_NILOBJECTCHECKING
>      #pragma StackOverflowChecking FTC_STACKOVERFLOWCHECKING
> 
>    #endif
> 
>    ' Return the display picture.
>    return display
> 
> End Function
> 
> I will put this in the next beta.
> 
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> http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/FormattedTextControl/FormattedTextControl.html
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