Storing the contents of a styled editfield...

[Jann Gobble <janngobble@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

My IM project inside my App is off the ground and working!  Yippee..

However, one thing.  I have an IM window where the conversation is on  
top and the user entry field is below.  The conversation field is  
styled to make it easy to see your text vs theirs (yours in blue,  
theirs in red -- with either of your names bolded).   When a user  
closes an IM window during a conversation ... and the other user (on  
the other side of the conversation) sends them a response, I would  
like to redisplay the window with the original conversation still in  
the editfield.
My main question is this:  I know I can store the TEXT portion of the  
editfield in a string variable and redisplay it if needed but is there  
a way to store the text and style portions in a variable.
I guess what I would LOVE to do is the equivalent of a Perl Freeze/ 
Thaw.  Whereby i can freeze a data structure such as an editfield --  
or the contents thereof, store it in a text variable and thaw it back  
out later to put back as the contents of the editfield.
Does such a puppy exist?

TIA

Jann


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