Gets the character formatting to apply to the inline text.

This function may be used to differentiate the formatting of the inline text from the surrounding text. The first parameter should be set to contain the character formatting values to use.

MCoeFepAwareTextEditor provides a member function for finding out the character formatting of the surrounding text - GetFormatForFep(). This can be called inside the implementation of this function to make any necessary adjustments to the format of the inline text to ensure that it is different from the surrounding text.

The second and third parameters enable different parts of the inline text to have different formatting.

All implementations of this function need to set the aNumberOfCharactersWithSameFormat parameter. If all of the inline text uses the same formatting then aNumberOfCharactersWithSameFormat should be set to the length of the inline text and the aPositionOfCharacter parameter can be ignored.

When the inline text does not all use the same formatting, the second parameter should be set to the number of characters starting at aPositionOfCharacter which have the same formatting: see the following example.

Example

If the inline text is 7 characters long, the first 4 characters are in format A, the next 2 characters are in format B, and the remaining character is in format C.

When the FEP framework (which knows that the inline text is 7 characters long) needs to find out the format of the inline text, it calls GetFormatOfFepInlineText() passing zero into aPositionOfCharacter (to signify the start of the inline text).

As the first 4 characters are all in format A, the function should set aFormat to A and it should set aNumberOfCharactersWithSameFormat to 4. As the FEP framework has only been told the format of the first 4 characters, it calls GetFormatOfFepInlineText() again passing 4 into aPositionOfCharacter. As the 2 characters starting at position 4 are all in format B, the function should set aFormat to B and it should set aNumberOfCharactersWithSameFormat to 2. The FEP framework still does not know the format of the 7th character so it calls GetFormatOfFepInlineText() a third time passing 6 into aPositionOfCharacter. As the character at position 6 is in format C, the function should set aFormat to C and it should set aNumberOfCharactersWithSameFormat to 1. The FEP framework now knows the format of all of the inline text.