I have been trying to copy (via script) the contents of a field into a specific line in another field. The problem I'm experiencing is that the text contains roman-extended characters (Esperanto characters: ĉ, ĝ, ŝ, ĵ, ĥ and ŭ), and even though I've tried everything I can think of, using the 'unicodeText' and the 'htmlText' properties, I still cannot make it work. I am using RunRev 2.0, with MacOS X 10.2.6.
To reproduce what I am experiencing, try the following:
1) Make a new stack, and place 2 fields in it - let's call them "sourceFld" and "targetFld". The source field can be just one line high, while the target field should be several lines high. Type something into the target field (it doesn't matter what) - for a few lines.
2) In the source field, type some text using the 'US Extended' keyboard layout. To type some of these Esperanto characters, for instance, while using the 'US Extended' keyboard, press "option+6" (to activate the circumflex accent) and then either 'c', 's', 'g', 'j' or 'h'.
3) NOW: using the message box, try creating a script that copies the contents of "sourceFld" into a line (let's say, line 2) of "targetFld".
The extended characters either disappear or change... Here is what I've already tried:
1) put field "sourceFld" into line 2 of field "targetFld"
RESULT: the extended characters appear in the targetFld as 'unknown character' boxes.
2) put the unicodeText of field "sourceFld" into line 2 of field "targetFld"
RESULT: exactly the same as above - the extended characters appear as blank boxes.
3) set the htmlText of line 2 of field "targetFld" to the htmlText of field "sourceFld"
RESULT: the characters disappear. If I check the 'htmlText' property of line 2 of the target field, I can see that it actually does NOT contain the same characters as the source field (compare with the htmlText property of the source field!).
4) set the unicodeText of line 2 of field "targetFld" to the unicodeText of field "sourceFld"
RESULT: an error - I believe the ' unicodeText' is not a property that can be 'set' on a 'per line' basis. It only seems to work if you set the entire field!
What seems to happen is that Revolution IS COPYING the right values out of the source field. If I 'split' the script, and get Rev to put the htmlText of the source field into a variable, and then check the contents of the variable, it actually DOES contain the right characters:
put the htmlText of field "sourceFld" into myVar put myVar
The contents of 'myVar' are IDENTICAL to the contents of the htmlText of field "sourceFld".
However, if we now say:
set the htmlText of line 2 of field "targetFld" to myVar
We see that Revolution is somehow changing the values of the extended characters...
Does anyone know how to get around this?
I'm sure that there must be a solution, as I understand Revolution has quite a few Japanese users, and they must be able to deal with this somehow!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
-- Igor de Oliveira Couto ---------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------
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