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hawkfanxity
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June 14, 2012
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Hidden spans

  • June 14, 2012
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We have implemented track changes in our application but now users want the ability to have a "Final without markup". This involves hiding deleted spans and just not showing the inserted decoration on inserted spans.

Character positions are very important to us so I don't think creating a new TextFlow with all the spans that are deleted is an option. 

What I really need is a way to hide spans or paragraphs so that as you continue to edit none of the character positions get off.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,

Joel

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Jin-Huang
Adobe Employee
June 15, 2012

A simple way may be you set text color of the spans you want to hide as the background color.

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hawkfanxityAuthor
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June 26, 2012

If I do that it will still take up the space in composition.

I found the bindable property that ensures that a FlowElement isn't merged or deleted.  I am going to try to set that to true then store off the content of the element into a scratch variable and set the text of the element to be nothing.

It seems to work pretty well so far. I think I will have to make some additional custimizations for paragraphs and paragraph terminators but it works exactly how I want it to for normal spans.

Thanks

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