Re: Text and html text
Maybe too many steps were involved. If you pasted: pBoldpRegularp into the field and see the markers then: set the htmlText of fld MyField to the text of fld MyField should work. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Jul 17, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: I was asked to do some editing of a field with a lot of text in it in someone else's program. The field consists of lines, some of which are in the default color (black) and some in red. I couldn't find a reliable way of doing find and replace on the field in situ, so I copied the whole contents and pasted it into a simple text editor (TextEdit on the Mac). All the text came across, but when I'd edited it and pasted it back, it didn't look the same (for example, the line spacing looked wrong). I then looked at all the properties of the original field (prior to my edit), where the text was revealed to be the htmlText of the field, with included paragraph (p) and color markers etc. I copied that into TextEdit, edited it and tried to paste it back - but I could see all the markers. I realised that I had somehow replaced htmlText with plain text in the field. I then tried to correct this by executing the following in the message box: set the htmlText of fld MyField to the text of fld MyField Nothing happened. How can I get back to the original situation after editing the text? TIA Graham ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Text and html text
On 07/17/2013 03:46 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: I was asked to do some editing of a field with a lot of text in it in someone else's program. The field consists of lines, some of which are in the default color (black) and some in red. I couldn't find a reliable way of doing find and replace on the field in situ, so I copied the whole contents and pasted it into a simple text editor (TextEdit on the Mac). All the text came across, but when I'd edited it and pasted it back, it didn't look the same (for example, the line spacing looked wrong). I then looked at all the properties of the original field (prior to my edit), where the text was revealed to be the htmlText of the field, with included paragraph (p) and color markers etc. I copied that into TextEdit, edited it and tried to paste it back - but I could see all the markers. I realised that I had somehow replaced htmlText with plain text in the field. I then tried to correct this by executing the following in the message box: set the htmlText of fld MyField to the text of fld MyField Nothing happened. How can I get back to the original situation after editing the text? TIA Graham ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode How about exporting the field contents as HTML. mucking around with the resulting html document with either a text editor or a dedicated html editor, and then importing the html document back into the field? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
