Re: Advantages of RVF vs RTF?

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Jim Maguire

Posted: 05/11/2005 5:18:19

I don't think I asked this correctly. The part I'm concerned about is being

able to utilize the Delphi controls and that seems to work in RTF and RVF.

Is that correct?

"Jim Maguire" <jimmaguire@cox.net> wrote in message

news:42816f57@support.torry.net...

>I found below in help, but I tried saving the readme.rvf file in the

>Editor1 demo as RTF and reloaded an everything looked good. What is

>missing with RTF?

> main settings affecting RVF saving and loading can be changed in the

> TRichView component editor;

> - in order to load bullets, hotspots and list levels with imagelist from

> RVF you need to create OnRVFImageListNeeded event handler;

> - you can save pictures and controls in binary mode or text mode (binary

> mode is much more efficient and compact);

> - you can save pictures and controls in RVF, or create them on request

> when loading;

> - if you load pictures and controls in RVF you need to register them with

> RegisterClasses procedure (you do not need to register TBitmap, TMetafile,

> TIcon and TJpegImage)

> - by default, formatting of text and paragraph (i.e. styles) is not saved;

> RVF contains only indices of styles; styles can be saved in RVF

> optionally.

> "Jim Maguire" <jimmaguire@cox.net> wrote in message

> news:428163d5$1@support.torry.net...

>>I have a couple apps already in place that store the documents in RTF

>>format in a database table and have just converted to RichViewEdit1 using

>>LoadRTFFromStream and SaveRTFToStream and just wonder if their will be any

>>feature of RichViewEdit that I won't be able to use.

>> I just started using RichViewEdit and have a full blown editor that

>> rivals much of MS Word in just a few days! RichViewEdit is awesome!