Re: Why won't Help Tip editor accept Carriage Return?

2018-07-14 Thread Alan Tilson via 4D_Tech
also for the record, this problem exists in v13.6 in windows as well as macOS. the copy & paste solution helps. closing and reopening the help tips window also generally clears the issue for a while. Alan On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:48 AM Pat Bensky via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > We

Re: Why won't Help Tip editor accept Carriage Return?

2018-06-12 Thread Pat Bensky via 4D_Tech
We manage help tips this way: - For each object, select the On Mouse Enter form event - We have a Help Tip named "HelpText" which simply contains a variable, tHelpText. Select that Help Tip for each object. - On the object, populate the tHelpText variable in the On Mouse Enter form event. With

Re: Why won't Help Tip editor accept Carriage Return?

2018-06-11 Thread Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech
for the record, problem does not exist for v14 or later. this is basically a compatibility issue between macOS 10.8/9 and 13.6 (evidently a regression from 13.5, really sorry about that...), which was released in the first half of 2015. > 2018/06/12 13:22、Dan Ivy via 4D_Tech

Re: Why won't Help Tip editor accept Carriage Return?

2018-06-11 Thread Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech
I wouldn't beat myself over that. UI threads are never preemptive. (and who needs helps tips outside the UI?) 2016/11/08 6:22、Keith Goebel mailto:keit...@clear.net.nz>> のメール: Downside: Perhaps not such a good solution now, with Preemptive Processing not working when there are IP vars

Re: Why won't Help Tip editor accept Carriage Return?

2018-06-11 Thread Douglas von Roeder via 4D_Tech
Alan: The messages in the thread "Text Editing Bug Introduced with v13.6" (from 10/2015) might shed some light on things. -- Douglas von Roeder 949-336-2902 On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:50 PM Alan Tilson via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > Hello Jim & everyone, > > I still have this

Re: Why won't Help Tip editor accept Carriage Return?

2018-06-11 Thread Alan Tilson via 4D_Tech
Hello Jim & everyone, I still have this issue with 4D v13.6 in sometimes in Help Tips and sometimes in text fields. Has it been resolved somehow? Thanks! Alan On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 7:13 PM Jim Labos - infobase wrote: > Sorry for double post. I meant to post to 4D Tech) > > The first edit

Re: Why won't Help Tip editor accept Carriage Return?

2016-11-08 Thread Koen Van Hooreweghe
But you can use xliff references in help tips. I have been using successfully and for a long time the :resourceId,stringNbr notation. Actually I'm using an IP variable, like :<>STRHelp,82 The help tip editor shows the reference, but at runtime I'm getting the correct text. The usage of an IP

Re: Why won't Help Tip editor accept Carriage Return?

2016-11-07 Thread Keisuke Miyako
also useful to know about help tips: 1. they can be set by code (since v13): http://doc.4d.com/4Dv16/4D/16/OBJECT-SET-HELP-TIP.301-3036170.en.html 2. the editor is not XLIFF compliant. the language, by contrast, supports XLIFF: