Carriage Return in datagrid data

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Wed Jan 4 14:51:22 EST 2012


Hi Mike,
I am using dgText but will try using dgData.  Have you tried this?  I'm
curious as to how the data looks in the datagrid column.  I'm using a dg
table with a fixed line height so I'm guessing everything after the first
return won't be visible?
Pete

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you setting your data using dgtext?  If so you might change your method
> so that you can set the dgdata instead. Put your data into an array with
> the first key designating the row.
>
> So simplest form, if you have say.. a few paragraphs of txt you want to put
> into your datagrid
>
> put mydata into tdataA[1]["thetextWithReturns"]
>
> Using dgData rather than dgText kinda makes having cr's in the data a moot
> point. dgtext goes by rows, dgData goes by the toplevel numeric index key.
>
> To work with existing data you can use dgdataofline and dgdataofindex
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
>
> > In my haste to implement this, I realised I do not know how to define
> ascii
> > characters to LC!  Is there a function or a numeric notation to do that?
> > Thanks
> > Pete
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:28 PM, stephen barncard <
> > stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> >
> > > replace return with VT (vertical tab)  ascii 11; do the reverse for
> > display
> > > in a field. VT was the "returns-in-field" line delimiter for Filemaker.
> > > URLEncode/Decode can put data on one line too.
> > >
> > > On 2 January 2012 17:20, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wondering if anyone has a good technique for dealing with carriage
> > > returns
> > > > within data loaded into a datagrid column?  The dg takes the cr as
> the
> > > end
> > > > of the row which messes up the datagrid pretty badly.  Seems like
> > there's
> > > > no alternative but to replace the cr with some displayable character
> > but
> > > > maybe there's another way?
> > > >
> > > >
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