You might try looking at how RTF is structured. Much like HTML it has
start and end characters. YOu can grab both, strip the "start" out of
the second item and the "end" out of the first, then combine those and
set the RTF of the member.
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Slava Paperno wrote:
Buzz,
Concatenating the "text" of members will discard all formatting AND links. I
need to preserve both. That's where the problem is.
I've now devised a routine that goes through all hyperlinks for each individual
member and recreates them at the appropriate points in the new, concatenated
member. But this means running the repeat loop twice and is pretty slow.
What I'm looking for is ether A) a property of a text member that can be concatenated
with another member's without losing formatting and links or B) a way to "fix"
the way Director mishandles several characters in the 128-255 range when representing
them in the member's HTML property.
Thanks for thinking about it.
Slava
At 01:53 PM 5/28/05 -0700, you wrote:
At 4:02 PM -0400 5/28/05, you wrote:
I need to concatenate several text members into one new member.
did you try?
holder = ""
repeat with CurrMem in locMemList
holder = holder & CurrMem.text
end repeat
newMember = new(#text)
newMember.text = holder
hth
-Buzz
The script below works, but all hyperlinks in the text are lost:
repeat with CurrMem in locMemList
member("NewMem").rtf = member("NewMember").rtf && member("CurrMemr").rtf
end repeat
I suppose the rtf of member doesn't know anything about hyperlinks.
This other script does preserve the hyperlinks, but messes up many of the
characters in the 128-255 ANSI range:
repeat with CurrMem in locMemList
member("NewMem").html = member("NewMember").html && member("CurrMemr").html
end repeat
For example, try putting the smart quotes (dec 132 and 148) into a text member and then
trace the member's HTML: you'll see that they are represented by HTML entities
Ñ and Ó respectively (in Windows). Now try this:
member(1).html = "<html><head><title></title><body>Ñ
Ó</body></html>"
and you'll see very different characters in the member's text, not the smart
quotes.
Director does this with several other characters in the upper-ANSI; they do not
survive the round trip in the HTML property.
How can I accomplish what I want?
Thanks,
Slava
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