strange htmltext problem

[Peter Haworth]

I've discovered that my htmltext problem with <sub> tags does not happen in
5.5.1.  Unfortunately I want to use the code in a plugin so it really has
to work in all recent versions of LC.  Past experience suggests that
there's not much hope of getting a bug fixed in a version when there's a
later version in which it's already fixed.

Ahhh, the joys of writing plugins!

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I'm having issues with htmltext also.
>
> I'm using the <sub> tag to do the equivalent of setting the textshift of a
> character and the <img> tag to do the equivalent of setting the
> imagesource, eg
>
> <sub shift="2"><img src="1234" char=" "></sub>
>
> I can clearly see this in the variable I use to set the htmltext, yet when
> I get the htmltext of the field, the <sub> clauses are sometimes there,
> sometimes not.  Even if they are there, they don't have any effect.
>
> I'd really like to get this working if I can since using htmltext appears
> much faster than setting the imagesource and textshift on individual lines
> in the field when there are a large number of lines to be processed.
>
> This is with LC 5.5.0, OSX 10.7.
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Klaus on-rev <klaus at major.on-rev.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> I have a strange htmltext problem with LC 5.52 while working on a rating
>> thing (5 stars etc..) with a LOCKED field :-)
>>
>> I have this script:
>> on mouseUp
>>    put "12345" into fld 1
>>    repeat with i = 1 to 5
>>       set the imagesource of char i of fld 1 to 1005
>>    end repeat
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> Works fine, 5 white stars appear, and when I check the htmltext of fld 1
>> I get:
>> RETURNS added for readability
>> <p>
>> <img src="1005" char="1">
>> <img src="1005" char="2">
>> <img src="1005" char="3">
>> <img src="1005" char="4">
>> <img src="1005" char="5">
>> </p>
>>
>> Fine so far, but when I set the htmltext of that field to the (Livecode
>> approved?) string above, only ONE star appears
>> and the htmltext reports:
>> <p>
>> <img src="1005" char="12345">
>> </p>
>>
>> WTF?
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Any hints very appreciated!
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Klaus
>>
>> --
>> Klaus Major
>> http://www.major-k.de
>> klaus at major.on-rev.com
>>
>>
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