Overview

Runtime forms that contain JadeRichText controls enable users to input and display rich text. Rich text controls support a wide variety of formatting (for example, bulleting, fonts, and tables) and the insertion of other objects (for example, bitmaps or Word documents).

Like all third-party ActiveX controls for rich text, extensive use of the JadeRichText control to store large rich text documents in the JADE database may significantly increase a user’s disk requirements.

If the application developer set up text that is initially displayed in a rich text control when a specific button is clicked, it is displayed in rich text format in the control.

A context (popup) menu that provides access to edit operations, character formatting, and basic paragraph formatting (for example, setting bulleting, fonts, and indents) may also be available in the control. The actions provided on this menu, determined by the application developer, are described in the following subsections. (Use the Esc key to cancel the display of popup menus.) Context menu options that are not available are automatically disabled (grayed out). Menu items that are followed by the points of ellipsis symbol (…) access a dialog relevant to that option.