RTF is a standard for specifying formatting instructions and document content in ASCII documents. An editor that supports RTF interprets a document’s instructions and displays the text with formatting.
PowerBuilder 10.5 uses a new rich text editor to support the RichTextEdit control and the RichText DataWindow presentation style. The new editor brings a modern look and includes some new features, including the ability to name and use formatting styles. Most of the properties and functions of rich text objects in previous versions of PowerBuilder continue to be supported by the new rich text editor. When you import rich text objects from previous versions of PowerBuilder, any obsolete properties and functions are ignored.
The new rich text editor supports a subset of the RTF specification version 1.6.
The new rich text editor features are described in the following sections:
