A field with shared text will not keep its text when it is copied or placed on another card, presumably because each card has its own text. A field without shared text will carry its text with it.
"Dr. Hawkins" <[email protected]> wrote: >I ran into this before about a year ago . . . > >I pull the html text from a database into thatText, and > > set the htmlText of fld goo to thatText > >Then, > > copy grp gunk to cd 1 of stack anotherStack > > >I get fld goo in the new group on the new card, but it's text is gone. > >In the past, I solved this by pasting text into the field, and got >fields that would survive the copy. That doesn't seem to be an option >this time, though. > >The htmlText got into the database by my copying from a pdf file and >pasting into the field by hand, then saving the htmlText of the field >to a database. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
