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Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box

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Michael Cole wrote on 26/08/2011 :
> MikeD brought next idea :
>>
>> "Michael Cole" <invalid@microsoft.com> wrote in message 
>> news:j34saf$uss$1@dont-email.me...
>>> I have been trying to figure this out for ages and cannot.  I need some 
>>> help.
>>>
>>> I am trying to emulate a standard email address field, where addresses can 
>>> be typed in or selected, and once recognised, they are no longer text.
>>>
>>> As far as I can see, this is done by replacing the address with a label 
>>> (or something like that) which is embedded in the text at the location 
>>> that the address was.  The question is how to embed the label.  The 
>>> documentation on the RTBox.OLEObjects.Add method is spectacularly 
>>> unhelpful.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any thoughts, suggestions or articles that they could 
>>> point me too as to how to accomplish this.
>>>
>>> Or alternatively, if I have got all of this wrong, could you let me know 
>>> how it should be done.
>>>
>>
>>
>> So what exactly are you asking?  It sounds to me as if you just want 
>> hyperlinks in your RTB.
>>
>
> No, its not hyperlinks.  What I want is an effect, as in Outlook, whereby 
> validated email addresses are effectively in the RTBox as a single character: 
> -
> - clicking anywhere on them highlights the entire text
> - when arrowing forwards and backwards, it acts as a single character
> - pressing delete will delete the entire address
>
> In effect, it acts like an embedded picture.  Now there is plently of 
> examples on the internet as to how to embed pictures in RTBoxes, and how to 
> embed Excel spreadsheets, but nothing about how to embed a label or other 
> control.

OK, I've been playing with this all day, and I have got to the 
following: -

If I put the following in the RTF field: -

{\field \fldlock {\*\fldinst QUOTE  "blah"}{\fldrslt blah}}

then theoretically it should act as a field.  But it isn't - it is 
still allowing the field contents to be directly typed in.

Anyone know anything about RTF?


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Michael Cole

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Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box Michael Cole <invalid@microsoft.com> - 2011-08-25 17:07 +1000
  Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box "MikeD" <nobody@nowhere.edu> - 2011-08-25 13:40 -0400
    Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box Michael Cole <invalid@microsoft.com> - 2011-08-26 10:36 +1000
      Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box Michael Cole <invalid@microsoft.com> - 2011-08-26 17:39 +1000
        Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box "mbyerley" <mbyerley@byerley.net> - 2011-08-26 07:46 -0400
        Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-08-26 10:18 -0400
          Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box Michael Cole <invalid@microsoft.com> - 2011-09-01 10:42 +1000
            Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-08-31 22:18 -0400
              Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box "Jim Mack" <no-uce-ube@mdxi.com> - 2011-09-01 08:36 -0400
              Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box Michael Cole <invalid@microsoft.com> - 2011-09-02 10:22 +1000
        Re: Embedding a lable inside a Rich Text Box Raoul Watson <WatsonR@IntelligenCIA.com> - 2011-09-11 12:00 -0400

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