Rtr-formatted text question

[Duane Poncy]

Ken, 
This is the script I wrote. Everything performs the way it should, 
except for the formatting is lost. It seems like it should work???

on mouseDown
  put the selectedText of field "wordlist" into field "EnglishWord"
  put word 2 of clickLine() into listLine
  set itemDelimiter to tab
  set the htmlText of field "TsalagiDefine" to the htmlText of item 2 
of line listLine of field "TsalagiData"
  replace ";" with return in field "TsalagiDefine"
end mouseDown

Thanks for your help.


Original Message:
> From: "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: RE: Rtr-formatted text question
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 22:19:28 -0500
> Organization: Sons of Thunder Software
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> 
> Duane,
> 
> Sorry, I didn't know you wanted a chunk. You can do the same thing, just
> include the chunk in your expression, like:
> 
>   set the htmlText of fld 2 to the htmlText of word 4 to 7 of fld 1
> 
> Let me know if this works or not...
> 
> 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 9:52 PM
>>  To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>  Subject: Re: Rtr-formatted text question
>>  
>>  
>>  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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