Simply setting the font of a field or text member to a double byte font appears to allow text entry. I haven't produced a final product that allowed entry, and only experimented on Macintosh, but the experiments indicate that it is very easy (they explored using BIG5 and GB for Chinese characters). Of course, there may exist subtleties with localized installations of Windows.
If I recall correctly, FileIO Xtra stops reading a file when it encounters numToChar(0), and the upper range byte of the double byte character might be 0. So for saving the data, you may want to look to vList Xtra, or else convert the string so that it won't contain numToChar(0).
Regards,
Daniel
On May 13, 2004, at 8:26 AM, roymeo wrote:
At 05:14 PM 5/11/2004, you wrote:Does the project require data entry or just data display?
Entry and display.
Does the project need to save data, and if so, will the files be distributed between different users or stay on a particular machine (ie: are the files data files that may be exchanged between users or are they similar to preferences files)?
Not sharing. But will need to interact with the user and the user's computer.
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