As outlined in the Feb 23 newsletter from RunRev, the new capabilities of the field object in v5.5 include:

• A new textChanged message so your app can be notified when any change to its contents takes place, whether from drag-and-drop or any other action, not just from typing as with the closeField message.
  
  
• Independent handling of text size and style attributes so you can set each without affecting the other.
  
  
• Unicode-aware chunk expressions for field contents.
  
  
• A new styledText array so you can rapidly traverse field elements.
  
  
• Paragraph-level formatting, which even allows different tabstops for embedding multple tables.
  
  
• Much more...

Check out the details here. These enhancements will open up many new opportunities for developers.

- Richard Gaskin
editor, LiveCode Journal

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