Passing non-expression strings to an Actor

Is there a clean way to pass a string parameter to an actor without it being interpreted as an expression? I have a situation where I want the actor to do the interpretation, complete with semantically significant embedded newlines. If I enter something with \ and \ surrounding the text, it will

Re: Passing non-expression strings to an Actor

Thanks for the quick response. I presume then that to set this attribute would require directly editing the xml file since Vergil would not expose the StringAttribute as a visible (and therefore configurable) attribute. Is that true? Thanks - Jim Stephen Andrew Neuendorffer wrote: Assuming you

Re: Passing non-expression strings to an Actor

Assuming you are writing your own actor, the easiest way to deal with this is to use a StringAttribute instead of a Parameter. This issue comes up in other contexts as well... for example, if you have a string with octal codes in it, the expression parser properly substitutes them into the

Re: Passing non-expression strings to an Actor

Again, thanks for the quick response. I switched over to the StringAttribute from Parameter. I still seem to get embedded newlines stripped. \n escape remains \n in the resulting string. Editing the xml to test results in the elimination of the embedded newline: property