last char, Unicode and other probs.

[Richmond]

On 12/25/2012 06:29 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
> Did you try char -2 to -1? Isn't unicode 2 byte?

No, I didn't; but, as per my usual tendency, i found a way to do what I 
wanted to do about
5 minutes after I posted:

on mouseUp
   set the useUnicode to true
---not entirely sure whetjer that line is necessary--
   copy the last char of fld "INNPUT"
set the traversalOn of fld "OOTPUT" to true
--that may also be unecessary--
   put empty into fld "OOTPUT"
   select after fld "OOTPUT"
   paste
end mouseUp


Certainly works with a field full of Devanagari chars [think 
numToChar(2325) - numToChar(2400)]

>
> Bob
>
>
> On Dec 25, 2012, at 5:46 AM, Richmond wrote:
>
>> So here I am with a field full of unicodeText
>> wanting to copy the last character across to another field,
>> so tried these possibilities:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>   set the useUnicode to true
>>   set the unicodeText of fld "OOTPUT" to the last char of fld "INNPUT"
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>   set the useUnicode to true
>>   put the charToNum(the last char of fld "INNPUT") into LSTCH
>>   set the unicodeText of fld "OOTPUT" to numToChar(LSTCH)
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> and had no joy with either of them.
>>
>> Any bright ideas would be welcomed; err, quite frankly, at this point the ideas don't
>> even have to be bright, they just have to work.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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