Yes, it is non-trivial but "what if..."
Assume the 'impossible' is possible.
Explore the possibilities, if you wouldn't mind.


W.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Stevens [mailto:bstevens33@...] 
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 12:39 PM
To: futurebasic@...
Subject: Re: [FB] Change characters in unicode


On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:30 AM, Ken Shmidheiser wrote:

> it sure would be nice if the FB Editor window was able to directly  
> interact with the Character Pallet a la TextWrangler, and display  
> Unicode characters rather than nebulous boxes when characters are  
> pasted into the window.


While this would be a nice feature, the effort required to implement  
is non-trivial to say the least. Our editor is still based in  
Quickdraw calls ( using the fn QDSwapTextFlags to get anti-aliased  
text ). When FB4.4.3 was announced on May 5, 2008 ( see release notes  
link on FBtoC web site ) the release notes said: "the 4.4.3 version is  
only available in English". This limitation also applies to the FB5  
editor since the core document handling is the same as FB4. The  
creation of a universal binary( UB ) editor was not a complete  
rewrite. We basically inherited much of the older code even though  
there were extensive revisions required to make it run as a UB.

Brian S

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