also for the record, this problem exists in v13.6 in windows as well as
macOS.
the copy & paste solution helps.
closing and reopening the help tips window also generally clears the issue
for a while.
Alan


On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:48 AM Pat Bensky via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
wrote:

> We manage help tips this way:
> - For each object, select the On Mouse Enter form event
> - We have a Help Tip named "HelpText" which simply contains a variable,
> tHelpText. Select that Help Tip for each object.
> - On the object, populate the tHelpText variable in the On Mouse Enter form
> event.
>
> With this scheme, you can customise your help tips in lots of creative ways
> - e.g. depending on whether the user is on Mac or Windows, what day of the
> week it is, what level of access the user has, or whatever. I also find it
> much easier to manage the tips as you don't have to deal with a long list
> of Help Tips.
>
> Pat
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 at 06:32, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech <
> 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
>
> > for the record, problem does not exist for v14 or later.
> >
> > this is basically a compatibility issue between macOS 10.8/9 and 13.6
> > (evidently a regression from 13.5, really sorry about that...),
> > which was released in the first half of 2015.
> >
> > > 2018/06/12 13:22、Dan Ivy via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> のメール:
> > >
> > > I agree with Doug about where this is coming from. Also as a workaround
> > I had
> > > success using a text editor to create the help text with carriage
> returns
> > > and then paste it into the 4D help editor. After that 4D seems to allow
> > > returns to be added or deleted from the text displayed in the help
> > editor.
> >
> >
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