Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!uva!freek
From: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: TESetStyle bug
Message-ID: <311@uva.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 20:47:37 GMT
References: <9416@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <9453@apple.Apple.Com>
Reply-To: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Keywords: TextEdit

In article <9453@apple.Apple.Com> tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot) writes:
>TESetStyle was ambiguous.  Especially if the selection ran over multiple
>styles.  In particular, does the client want to toggle the particular style,
>or is this a replacement.  In other words, does [bold] mean "add the bold
>attribute to this text" or "make this text just bold"?

Why doesn't TESetStyle behave the same way as the Style menu in MacWrite does?

Also: Is it possible to obtain the style information of the selection when it
is longer than one character, without checking all individual characters with
TEGetStyle?
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