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... does that have something to do with having unicode set to true (in RV + styles) ?

I tried

rv.RVData.DrawItems.GetString(DrawItemNo, rv.RVData.Items);

but it only returns first character of the string?

Sorry, but I don't get it...

I tried this (ignored all code relating to tables as I won't be using any):



procedure TViewerForm.TextSizePosScrollChanged;
var LRVData: TCustomRVFormattedData;
pt: TPoint;
TopItem, TopCharOffset, DrawItemNo, DrawItemOffset: integer;
begin
// Find item at top left ...

Thanks,

but I think it's not quite what I'm after. I don't want to scroll the other richview, just show where the other is scrolled at. It should work like this:

- Richview2 scrolls automatically, with a timer
- RV1 is scrolled (and edited) by the user, and it just shows what part of the text is ...

I have 2 RichViews as follows:

EDITOR is used for editing
VIEWER is on another form and monitor, and it shows the exact same text, formatted with the same styles, only all the text sizes are much larger (multiplied by about 4) so that the viewer usually displays only part of the editor text ...

VCL components can be made thread safe (for example TThread...), though TControl descendants are not, I think. Well never mind then.

I'd need paragraph coordinates to apply different special fx to different paragraphs - for example, nothing to paragraph 0, glow effect to paragraph 1, etc. Not very ...

Can RichView (or reportHelper) be used for rendering text completely off-screen, without any forms?

What I'd like to do is to load some formatted text from a memory stream, and draw that onto a memory DC (from a Direct3D9 surface), preferrably in a worker thread.

Is this possible? Any samples or ...