Styled text challenge...

[JonathanC at ag.nsw.gov.au]

xbury.<cs at clearstream.com> wrote on Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:39:48 +0100:

> Other than parsing completely out the html code, you would assume that
> 
> set the RTFText of fld "text" to the HTMLText of fld "html"
> 
> converts html to styled text... BUT IT DOESN'T! 
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any other language features for this purpose.

And then a little later (18:17:44 +0100):
 
> I'm not sure if i was clear,
> I want to convert HTML text in fld "HTML" to RTF in fld "TEXT"
> 
> But I'm practically giving up, this is too much hassle, ...

I have an EXTREMELY simple one-card HTML <-> Styled text convertor stack 
that works like this:
2 fields: "Styled Text" & "HTML"
2 buttons: "Styled text -> HTML" & "HTML -> Styled text"

Script of button "Styled text -> HTML":
on mouseUp
  put the htmlText of fld "Styled Text" into fld "HTML"
end mouseUp

Script of button "HTML -> Styled text":
on mouseUp
  set the htmlText of fld "Styled Text" to fld "HTML"
end mouseUp

Isn't this second button doing what you want? 
I assume you don't want the RTF CODE (e.g. 
  {\rtf1\mac\ansicpg10000\cocoartf102
  {\fonttbl\f0\fnil\fcharset77 Verdana-Bold;\f1\fswiss\fcharset77 
ArialMT;\f2\fnil\fcharset77 Verdana;
  }
  ...etc. etc. }
just the HTML code to DISPLAY as it's meant to (except for stuff like 
tables).

Regards,

Jonathan Cooper
Manager of Information / Website
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

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