Rtr-formatted text question

[Duane Poncy]

Ken, I tried your suggestion, but it doesn't do what I need it to do. 
It moved all of the text from field1 to field2.  Selecting a chunk of 
the field doesn't work either. What I need to do is move a chunk of a 
single line of selected text from the field with the formatting intact. 
 

Can this be done???

Thank you.
Duane Poncy

Original Message:
> From: "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: RE: Rtf - formatted text question
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 01:06:04 -0500
> Organization: Sons of Thunder Software
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> 
> 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


Duane Poncy

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