How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

[Phil Davis]

In my simplistic view of things, here's how I make sense of your experience:

- "the number of lines" returns the number of CR chars found in your target
data.

- the CR char was designed to do one thing: to end the current line, causing
what follows it to be in a new line. If it exists in the middle of the data,
a new line of data comes after it; if it's at the end of the data, it is the
last char of the last line. No new line is created EVEN THOUGH its
field-display characteristic (hard-wrapping) remains the same.

HTH
Phil Davis


----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaus Major" <klaus at major-k.de>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651


> Hi David,
>
> this one might be of interest to other listers, too!
> So please join in again ;-)
>
> > ...
> >> But how comes the empty line 4 into play???
> >> The linecount is 3 but there are (proven) 4 lines in the field???
> >
> > Well to me there are 3 lines in the LIST (not sure what is the the
> > field) and as
> > most of what I've tested in RR seems to work and return a line count
> > of 3, so it
> > seems to me that the place to change it is in a *field*, not in a
> > "Line List".
> >
> > What happens if you ask for the number of lines in the *field*, does
> > it return 3 or 4?
>
> 3
>
> > What happens if you put the (unchanged) field back into a new
> > "LineList" and ask for the line count?
>
> 3
>
> But now the puzzling part:
>
> This is in fld 1 (the result of your script)
>
> line1
> line2
> line3
> ...an empty line 4!!!
>
> Now, if i:
> "set the yadda of this cd to fld 1"
>
> i have a customproperty "yadda" with
> 4 (FOUR) lines and the last one is empty, just like the field...
>
> But if i:
> "set the customkeys of this cd to fld 1"
>
> i will end with 3 "THREE" customkeys and NOT with an empty one as I
> really exspected!!!
>
> This is, in fact, a bit disturbing, to say at least, since our whole
> discussion was about
> a missing/NOT missing trailing CR...???
>
> Molto misterioso! ;-)
>
> Another test in that field, now set to listbehaviour!
>
> I can select the empty line 4!
>
> put the num of lines of fld 1 -> 3
>
> DRUMM ROLLLLLLLLL:
>
> delete line 4 of fld 1
>
> Now i cannot select the empty line 4 anymore, since it is GONE!!!???
>
> Can anyone please give a clue about this inconsistency (is it?)
>
> >> P.S.
> >> I live in germany...
> >> Where do you live?
> >>
> >> I will get this info!
> >> Even if this will be the last action in my life... ;-)
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't think you *really* wanted to know. I live in Lonodn,
> > UK!
>
> Ah, thanks :-)
>
> Well in that case, i hate to say, but THIS
>
> >>> Well haveing definitions of parameters in the dictionary would be
> >>> one step towards that,
> >>> at least in my corner of the world!!!
> >> Where do you live?
> > I live in a land where terms that are mentioned in dictionaries aught
> > be have those terms in the dictionary!
>
> must be fiction... :-D
>
> > And I sincerly hope it isn't your last action!
> > All the Best and Thanks for your help! Email can be a pain to get your
> > point across!
>
> Especially if there ARE strange things going on... ;-)
>
> > Dave
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> www.major-k.de
>
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