RTF to TEXT from console app

General Programming
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I have a few RTF documents that I want to convert to text. I see from the docs that StyledText has RTFData, but looks like this is associated to TextArea.

is it possible to convert RTF to Text file from console app?

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You may be misunderstanding the documentation. TextArea does have a StyledText property, but the StyledText class is not directly tied to it. You can use the StyledText class in a Console app.

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thank you tim. you are correct, I misread it.

now, I am getting a funky error:

var s as string = rs.Column("RTFTEXT").StringValue
var ts as new StyledText
ts.RTFData = s

when I try to run, I get an error stating that “StyledText” has no member named “RTFData”

4

Harr, maybe I’m wrong. That’s always fun :slight_smile:

5

MBS to the rescue!

just added there Util plugin, and I am now able to get around the issue.

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The CONSOLE version of StyledText does indeed not have RTFData

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There’s a teeny-tiny little inaccurate note on the documentation that suggested otherwise " Supported for all project types and targets." :confused:

Good thing for MBS!

8

Bug report time as its definitely not there
I’ve checked several avenues and it definitely isnt there in a Console app
Either its a documentation bug about RTF or that its just isnt present in Console

9

the interesting part is, auto-complete allows you to fill out StyledText.RTFData from console

10

Yeah
Thats a shortcoming of how autocomplete works :frowning: