On 8/19/13 3:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Jacque wrote:
Basically, I'm storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some
of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points
to a word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching
the displayed field text (which is unicodetext) with the glossary key.
I can't find where this is mentioned in the docs, but historically there
was a caution against using anything but alphanumeric ASCII characters
for key names.
In my experience that's more strict than it needs to be, but if the
format of encoded arrays is any clue there may still be a restriction on
having NULL bytes in a key name.
I'm glad you warned me before I got too far. I've thought of a fallback
that may work. I am able to convert the entire file into html with some
silly convolutions. Using a variation on Devin's trick, I'm thinking I
could get the htmltext of the mousechunk and match *that* against the
keys, which would also be html.
Might work.
Here's a test script showing how I get the html:
on mouseup -- 3x faster using templatefield
answer file empty
if it = "" then exit to top
put it into tFile
put url ("file:" & tFile) into tData
put uniEncode(tData,"UTF8") into tData
set the unicodetext of the templatefield to tData
get the htmltext of the templatefield
replace "<" with "<" in it
replace ">" with ">" in it
replace "&bull;" with "•" in it
set the htmltext of fld 1 to it
end mouseup
We're using a very limited set of html tags, so the three replacements
in the script are all I need. This largely works except that after I
split the data, some of the keys are in html. There is also the problem
of <p> tags around each line but I can deal with that.
If anyone knows a better way to convert to html, I'm all ears.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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