How do I Create a Custom Property

David Burgun dburgun at dsl.pipex.com
Wed Apr 21 13:12:12 EDT 2004


>>
>>This is basically what I was saying, the problem is that there if 
>>there is just one entry in the Custom Properties, then it isn't 
>>always terminated with a CR. So, doing
>>
>>>put "This is line 1" into line (number of lines of tTemp + 1) of tTemp
>>
>>would result on the line being appended to the last LINE not to the 
>>container. Also from reading Klaus's posts, he seems to think that 
>>you are to put the CR at the START of a line, means that if the 
>>container is empty, you need to do a test for that and NOT prepend 
>>a return in this case!
>>
>>I am guessing that the problems I was having yesterday is because I 
>>entered some custom props in the IDE which by the looks of it, 
>>doesn't add a CR to the last item in the list. As long as 
>>everything is TERMINATED with a CR, then your code will work ok 
>>(and so will mine!).
>
>Maybe I am not understanding what you want but with my example you 
>don't need to worry about CR terminations.  Example 1 starts with an 
>empty custom prop but properly puts "This is line 1" into the list 
>on line 1 (number of lines of tTemp returns  when the list is 
>empty).  Example 2 doesn't have a CR at the end of line 3 but 
>properly puts "This is line 4" on line 4.
>
>Am I missing something.

No, you are right, when I looked at the sample I had using this 
approach it actually worked! I must have been looking at the wrong 
thing or something. This seems by far the best approach.

Thanks for your help.

All the Best
Dave


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