Maybe too many steps were involved. If you pasted: <p>Bold<p>Regular<p> 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
