Problem with setting htmlText of field to empty in LiveCode 6.6 RC2

[Richmond]

On 19/03/14 16:02, Tim Bleiler wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Klaus major-k wrote:
>
>>> Are others seeing this and is it a bug?
>> since <p></p> is in fact the HTML equivalent to "empty/no text" I would not consider this a bug :-)
>
> Thanks Klaus, I thought I should check on that before putting in a bug report. It seemed too obvious to have been missed.
>
> It does create an odd condition by Livecode standards however that you can set the htmlText to empty, then immediately test if the htmlText is empty and it returns false. I suspect that could confuse some people.
>
> Out of curiosity, do you know how "something" ( <p></p> ) came to be regarded as equivalent to empty?

Well, of course that's logically fairly crappy.

The way to test if an htmlField is empty is surely something like this:

if the htmlText of fld "f1" is not "<p></p>" then
    put "Yippee-Do, 'tis empty my friend!"
end if

Richmond.
>
> Tim
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