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From: sas@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Scott Sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TextEdit to PICT and back to TE
Summary: What's the best way to do this?
Keywords: TextEdit PICT
Message-ID: <88067@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 19:28:20 GMT
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Organization: Ohio State University, Department of Dance
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I'm working on a specialized drawing application called LabanWriter that allows
us to notate dance (and other movement) on the Mac. Much of the rest of the 
work is done, but I still have to add text handling capability.

Working with TextEdit is no problem, but once a TE area is no longer active
I need to make it into a PICT, and of course I need to make it back into 
a TE record when it is selected again.

Can anyone suggest a good way of doing this without losing all of the
style info and preferably without storing a lot of redundant information?

Thanks in advance,
Scott
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Scott Sutherland  Internet: scott@dance.ohio-state.edu, AT&T Mail: !scottas
Staff Software Developer
The Ohio State University, Department of Dance