TextEditor and bold/italice/underlined styles

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Fri, 11/14/2025 - 14:59

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Hi,

I try to display bold, italic and underlined words in a TextEditor gadget. It works when creating the gadget by using:
LAYOUT_AddChild, TxtEd = TextEditorObject,
GA_ReadOnly, TRUE,
GA_TEXTEDITOR_BevelStyle, BVS_NONE,
GA_TEXTEDITOR_Contents, "\33bbold\33iitalic\33uunderlined\33nnormal",
GA_TEXTEDITOR_ImportHook, GV_TEXTEDITOR_ImportHook_Plain,
TAG_END),

But if I try to add the same string (except a leadin \n) after the creation of the window:
DoGadgetMethod((struct Gadget *)TxtEd, window, NULL,
GM_TEXTEDITOR_InsertText, NULL, (ULONG) "\n\33bbold\33iitalic\33uunderlined\33nnormal",
GV_TEXTEDITOR_InsertText_Bottom);

\n is well interpreted but it seems that \33b, \33i... are no longer.
So the new line is displayed without any bold, italic, underlined styles.

What am I doing wrong?

You can download source, exe and screenshot of the problem here:
http://boing.attitude.online.fr/temp/Test_TextEditor.zip

Thanks in advance.