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

[Richmond]

On 19/03/14 16:09, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Why would you want to do this? To make a field empty, just put empty 
> into the field and if you want you can test that it is empty:
>
> put empty into fld 1
> put (fld 1 is empty) --> true
>
> This clears the text, the htmlText, 

Not exactly: "put empty into fld 1" still leaves "<p><p/>" in the field, 
OR, at least when one does something like this:

put the htmlText of fld 1 into fld 2

one ends up with "<p><p/>" in fld 2.

Richmond.

> the unicodeText and the rtfText of the field. Why would you want to 
> test that only the htmlText is empty?
>
>
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> On 3/19/2014 15:02, 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?
>>
>> Tim
>
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