Re: Formatted text confuses table grid under windows

[Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>]

Dave Page wrote:
> Hi Erwin,
> > To see my point you might want to just reproduce the bug. Create an email
> > hyperlink in an OOo document. (Insert -> Hyperlink ..) Then copy/paste the
> > email-address to a text field in the table grid.
> >
> > As long as you are in edit mode, the field displays (in blue, so obviously
> > something is different):
> >         test(at)foo(dot)org
> >
> > As soon as you leave the field, to another column or row, saving the data or
> > not, the display changes to:
> >         HYPERLINK "mailto:test(at)foo(dot)org" test(at)foo(dot)org
>
> Unfortunately I cannot find any way around this. If we stop using the
> rich text control, we limit the amount of data we can handle as the
> non-rich text variant will simply truncate oversized data on win32.
> There is no way in wxWidgets to remove the URL formatting that I can
> find, nor is there any way offered by the rich text controls own API
> :-(. It is somewhat odd that we can get the text with the other
> formatting (font etc) though - perhaps an overisght on Microsoft's
> behalf?

AFAIK, none of that auto-formatting is a part of what Windows richtext 
control does, I think it's all in wx. Not that it helps you, though :-( 
Unless you want to add code to wx to do it...


//Magnus