Rtf - formatted text question

[Ken Ray]

Duane,

Do you have to use RTF? The reason I ask is that the HTMLText manages
styles a lot better than RTF, and even if you use RTF for your import,
I'd use HTMLText to move styled data from one field to another:

  set the htmlText of fld 2 to the htmlText of fld 1

As to why semicolons are stripped in RTF import... I don't know. Any
chance you could use some other delimiter?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Duane Poncy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:27 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Rtf - formatted text question
> 
> 
> Hello, I hope somebody can help out a newbie.
> 
> I am programming an English>Cherokee>English dictionary. Because I am 
> very poor, I have to use the free edition of Revolution, so 
> my code has 
> to be tight.  Here is my problem:  I need to use character formatting 
> in my definition field, but I can't figure out how to do that. 
> 
> My stack script:
> 
> on preOpen
>   set the rtfText of field "tsalagiData" to URL 
> "file:TsalagitoEnglishTest.rtf"
>   set itemDelimiter to tab
>   repeat for each line thisLine in field "TsalagiData"
>     put item 1 of thisLine & linefeed after field "wordlist"   
>   end repeat
> end preOpen
> 
> --this puts my tab delimited rtf file into an invisible field 
> "tsalagiData", then puts the first chunk (the english word) into the 
> field "wordlist".  This works fine, except that importing the 
> rtf file, 
> for some reason, strips out all of my semicolons, which I need for 
> formatting (see below).
> 
> My script for the field "wordlist":
> 
> on mouseDown
>   put the selectedText of field "wordlist" into field "EnglishWord"
>   put word 2 of clickLine() into listLine
>   select line listLine of field "TsalagiData"
>   set itemDelimiter to tab
>   put item 2 of the selectedText of field "TsalagiData" into field 
> "TsalagiDefine"
>   replace ";" with return in field "TsalagiDefine"
> end mouseDown
> 
> This also works fine, except when (Item 2) is put in the field 
> "TsalagiDefine" the character formatting is gone. (Item 1, 
> used above, 
> doesn't need formatting.)
> 
> Is there any way to move rtf text from one field to another 
> and retain 
> the formatting?
> Why are my semicolons stripped when I import my rtf file?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Duane Poncy
> 
> visit Elohi Gadugi: poetry, software, 
> Cherokee culture and Native American rights. 
> http://dsaoregon.igc.org/tsalagi/
> 
> 
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