About Stephen Lebans 'RTF control' ControlSource.

[ThomasAJ]

The ActiveX control uses the RTFField control as its source.
The RTFField control is bound to a field in a table.
All OK.

But I need to programatically load the value into the RTFField. When I do
that (and the value is from the sample file proved by the Lebans RTF mdb so I
know it's 100% correct) the ActiveX control completely ignores what is in
there.

 

[ThomasAJ]

After more playing it seems that it will not work unless the RTFField control
is bound to a field in a table.

This makes its use very limited, but I guess there are workarounds.

 

[Stephen Lebans]

That is a false statement.

The control does not have to be bound to a field. But I will say that Access
sometimes has trouble when it calculates Page breaks for an Unbound control.
Also, I have seen font rendering issues when using the RTF control unbound.
A GoogleGRoups search will yield several relevant threads..
--

HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.

 

[Robert Olson]

That is a false statement.

The control does not have to be bound to a field. But I will say that Access
sometimes has trouble when it calculates Page breaks for an Unbound control.
Also, I have seen font rendering issues when using the RTF control unbound.
A GoogleGRoups search will yield several relevant threads..

Does this include using the RTF control bound to a function return? I
just started using it (and it is GREAT, I have been looking for
something like this for years) in a report that has an RTF control on
the left side of the detail (for address info), and a subreport on the
right side of the detail that includes an RTF control for each item that
matches the toplevel detail.

I'm seeing rendering glitches on the left-hand RTF that show up as
spaces inserted into the middle of words. It appears that once a record
has the glitch, the rest of the records below it on the same page also
render badly.

thanks,
--bob

 

[Robert Olson]

I had trouble telling exactly what threads you mean, most of what I
found said to look for the threads . The one I found was a query
about font types; I'm using Garamond, with switches to boldface and to
strikethrough at times, though I see the glitches even when I don't have
font changes. I'm setting the font using an RTF font table:

{\rtf1\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0 Garamond;} {\f1 Courier New;}}
\fs36 \ql {..data1...\line
....data2...\line
}Home: XXXXX\line
Work: XXXXX\line
Work: XXXX\line
(e-mail address removed)\line
}

I presume one workaround would be to gen up a query that creates a
report table that has the RTF preformatted.

thanks,
--bob

 

[Robert Olson]

And to answer my post again, now that I understand what the font choice
issue that was referred to means.

In the Other section of the RTF inspector there is a Font option that
shows in the list as just (Font). Clicking on it brings up a font
chooser; when I selected my TrueType font in there, things started
working just fine. Font changes in the RTF work as well, though I wonder
if there are subtle font metrics differences between the fonts that I'm
not seeing. In any event this is working great.

--bob