Unicode woes

[Trevor DeVore]

On May 6, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> OK, I am now on my second week of beating the pants off of Director. 
> Our Director Guru took 2 months to build what I might be able to 
> finish in 2 weeks.
> I would say I am  85 % done. I have 2 sections left and the problem of 
> Unicode.
>
> The problem:
>
> I am able to get Unicode text into rev by pasting into a field. I can 
> take that code to a field on another stack using:
> This works great;
> set the unicodetext of field "Inputtray" of stack "Games" to the 
> unicodetext of field "CHIcons" of stack "Editor"
>
> But I have to filter my fields in order to get my software to work. I 
> need to store my Unicode in variables BUT they don't seem to work. It 
> seems that you can't set the unicode of a variable to the unicode of a 
> field:
> This does not work;
> set the unicodetext of gPreviewMessage to the unicodetext of field 
> "CHMessages" of card "Languages" of stack "Editor"
>
> Do any of you guys have any ideas how to accomplish this???

Variables do not have a unicodeText property.  Just put the unicodeText 
of the field into the variable.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com