Word Processing Formats

[David Thompson]

>  >> I thought this approach might work, but I'm stymied by a bug/feature.
>>>  Selecting characters in a WPSO in a loop to identify their formatting
>>>  eventually gives the error "Too many nested subroutiines." Where are
>>>  the nested subroutines here??
>>>
>>>  local CNT
>>>  CNT=0
>>>  loop
>>>      CNT=CNT+1
>>>      ActiveSuperObject "SetSelection",CNT-1,CNT
>>>  until CNT=200
>>>
>>>  If this worked, I could go after more data, but it won't go much over
>>>  100 characters. Getting more data drops that down to 30 or 40. Can
>>>  this be fixed?
>>
>>  I'm suprised by your results, I was going to suggest a technique like
>>  this. I haven't found it yet, but at some point I created a procedure
>>  that used this technique to convert WPSO text into formatted HTML 
>>  (there
>>  were some limitations on what formatting would be converted, but it 
>>  did
>>  the basics - font, size, color, bold, italic, centered, right
>>  justification). I definitely had it working with over 100 characters.
>>
>>  Jim Rea
>>  President, ProVUE Development
>
>Thanks, Jim. Hopefully, someone will test the simple proc above, to 
>see if they have the same problem. All you need to do is make a 
>selection in a WPSO (to make it active) and then run the proc. I'm
>using the latest Pan5.5.

I didn't get this error when I tried it. After 
trying your code the way you wrote it above, I 
added some code to find out how many characters 
there were, so that it could loop through them 
all. It took about 2 minutes and 50 seconds to 
loop through 120,388 characters.

I haven't tried to do any of the other things you 
said you were doing, but as far as your test code 
is concerned, I can't confirm the problem.

Dave