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Re: RichEdit control question

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On 10/15/2011 4:16 PM, Thorsten Albers wrote:
> Kalkidas<eat@joes.pub>  schrieb im Beitrag<j7cno4$mac$1@dont-email.me>...
>> And all I wanted to know is if there's anybody who knows the RichEdit
>> control well enough to tell me what the global toggle for hidden text
>> is, assuming it exists, which it almost certainly does.
>
>>> MS Word can toggle hidden text off/on almost instantaneously, even in
>>> huge files with thousands of instances of hidden words. This indicates
>>> that it is not using a process of iteration, but is toggling some global
>>> feature.
>
>>> The feature must be part of the WinAPI RichEdit control, not the MS
>>> Office engine, since the DevExpress XtraRichEdit control also has this
>>> capability, and it doesn't require the presence of MS Office.
>
> The only thing which the Rich Edit Control and MS Word (and others like
> e.g. WordPad) have in common is that they use the Text Object Model (TOM).
> MS Word does _not_ make use of the Rich Edit Control! The Rich Edit
> Control, MS Word and presumably also the "DevExpress XtraRichEdit" are
> administrating the data with the TOM but each one of these has its own
> method to render the data to a certain device like the screen. The
> rendering is the point at which a "global toggle" for hidden text is to be
> implemented. And while MS Word implements such a "global toggle" the Rich
> Edit Control AFAIK does _not_. If you want to implement a "global toggle"
> for hidden text you have to implement your own rendering method.

Thank you for an informative reply. I'll see what I can learn about the TOM.

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  Re: RichEdit control question "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-10-11 00:53 -0400
  Re: RichEdit control question BTIS Jeff <btisjb@gmail.com> - 2011-10-11 08:17 -0700
    Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-11 14:17 -0700
      Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-11 22:27 +0100
        Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-11 14:59 -0700
          Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-12 08:00 +0100
            Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-12 16:18 -0700
              Re: RichEdit control question Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-10-13 08:45 +0100
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-13 10:24 +0100
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  Re: RichEdit control question Eric Coleman <eric@strategon.com> - 2011-10-13 19:55 -0500
    Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-14 09:30 +0100
    Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-15 07:53 -0700
      Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-15 17:03 +0100
      Re: RichEdit control question ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-10-15 12:25 -0500
        Re: RichEdit control question ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-10-15 12:29 -0500
        Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-15 12:45 -0700
          Re: RichEdit control question ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-10-15 15:24 -0500
          Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-15 23:16 +0000
            Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-16 18:21 -0700
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-16 23:15 -0400
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-17 17:19 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-17 15:59 -0700
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-17 19:59 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-17 17:34 -0700
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-17 23:46 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-18 07:35 -0700
                Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-18 15:17 +0000
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-19 10:09 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-19 18:26 +0100
          Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-15 19:53 -0400
            Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-16 03:32 +0000
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-16 12:02 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-16 22:10 +0000
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-16 19:17 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-17 09:43 +0000

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