Hello, Hope everyone is still out there...just got my Macromedia/Adobe merge letter.
To my question: I am importing text files created in notepad on Windows. I'm using the readFile command with an instance of the FileIO Xtra in 8.5 to read the contents of the files. When I place the imported text in a field on the stage, the paragraph characters are showing up as boxes. I've tried changing fonts and some other simple formatting but they don't go away. The paragraph breaks act the way that they should (text moves down, blank lines are left) but I don't want those characters to be visible. Aside from reading out the text around those characters and writing it back into another field, is there any way to suppress the boxes? My text is ANSI with no special formatting or encoding. I'm putting it into an uneditable field. The reason for this arrangement is to allow updating of product descriptions in the future. We change the text files on a saleperson's machine and they have the new specs or descriptions read into the old front end. If anybody has alternative ideas to accomplish this same end, I'm always ready to listen. Thanks, Al End of Lingo-l Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2 ************************************* [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
