Matt Collier wrote:Hello all, I have a very simple database to put together. One of the fields needs to contain several paragraphs formatted text (bolded, italics, various fonts and sizes). I'm using a mysql back end, but I'm not committed to that. I just discovered that OpenOffice Base is not capable of this feat. I'm interested in finding a working, free, alternative.

Hello Matt,
Text Editor is a from widget in Kexi, capable of editing a subset of HTML (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/richte ... ubset.html).

The widget has Rich Text property, true by default. I just noticed it accepts pasting rich text such as copied from a browser, unfortunately it fails to save it, instead it converts the content to plain text. It will be fixed in subsequent release (which will be 2.6.0 Beta 1). You can store the HTML but it has to be entered or pasted in as HTML text, not rich text. This way (after the fix) you'd be able to see the resulting HTML.

We also do not have proper toolbar for actions [Bold], [Italic], etc. This would have to be added too.

Another missing feature is displaying rich text in Tabular View.

Thanks for helping to locate this regression

Update: reported bug #309174: Text Editor strips out rich text formatting in Kexi Forms.