When i was doing a project and working qith Word files i had the exact someproblem, but not all spaces appeared as square boxes. I thought at the time that it had something to do with a word quirkiness of some kind, the only way i "figured out" to solve this was erasing them one by one directly on Director, anything else i tried, i ended up with those dreadful boxes, but if youre importing text dinamycally i guess doing it by hand won´t help. Only thing i can think of is, if you have access to the original files, is save them in a very plain text editor like notepad or something like that, so you try to avoid th insertion of "ghost characters" in the file. But other than that i don´t know what you can do. FYI, I tried saving the files in a simple text editor and anyway i ended up with the squares, i guess it has something to do with Director and text formats, maybe if you import the text as .txt you can solve the problem, but then you´ll have the problem of formatting the text once it is in Director. Hope i shed some light on the proble, but for me was a really big one and couldn´t figure out a way to avoid it automatically on import Diego Landro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Sheridan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lingo-l" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 1:26 PM Subject: <lingo-l> RTF files - making me cringe!
> Hi List, > > I am working on a previously developed project that reads in RTF (rich > text files) dynamically via XML - the problem that I am having is that > when director is displaying them I am ending up with square characters > or hook like characters instead of spaces... this is occuring on both > Mac and PC! > > When you read the files outside of director the appear as you would > expect them to with no weird characters! > > Anyone got any suggestions? I thought it might be the format they have > been supplied in - but I am now strongly thinking it is a Director thing!!! > > Any alternative solutions would be kindly accepted! I have until 6am GMT > to figure this out! > > Cheers, > > Dan ;) > [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!] > [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!]
