Mike,
My guess is that Buddy is right on here. I have seen spaces show up as the
umlat Y or whatever it is called. If the field is highlighted then hit either the
SHIFT F9 or DEL key to remove everything.
Best regards,
Mike Young
On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:24:18 -0400, Walker, Buddy wrote:
>Mike
> Instead of using the space bar to erase the field why not use
>[Shift]+[F9]the space bar maybe inserting the hard spaces.
>
>Buddy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MJS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:54 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Goofy looking blanks
>
>
>Good thoughts, but not the case. This is a new form, created in RBase
>for Windows, 3 expressions, 2 fields, no picture format stuff, and
>set blank = ' ' does not make it go away. It's easy to reproduce. The
>1st field is the place where the user enters an abreviation such as
>"HTN" for hypertension, the 2nd field is a look up field that ends up
>with the
>value 'HYPERTENSION'. If I tab over to the second field, and erase it
>by just hitting the space bar, and then tab out of the field, the goofy
>looking yyyyy string is left behind. The 2 fields are tiered.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Mike Sinclair
>
>RBTI Customer Support wrote:
>>
>> At 08:01 AM 5/25/01, you wrote:
>> >How do you get rid of them.....or more important (since they go away
>> >when you enter and exit the field), how do you keep them from showing
up
>> >in the first place?
>> >
>> >Mike Sinclair
>>
>> Dear Mike;
>>
>> Check to make sure that you do not have anything in the "Picture
Format"
>> box in the field properties.
>>
>> This is a carryover from DOS, which means that you probably have some
>> form of coding on the field, or defined in a variable on the form/report.
>> Usually,
>> hard coded printer control codes left as variables will be the cause.
>>
>> Also, check the character settings of the database. Simply type SHOW
CHAR
>> at the R> when connected to the database. Make sure that your BLANK
>> setting is a blank space.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> RBTI CUSTOMER SUPPORT
