Answer Annoyance

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Thu Aug 30 03:13:44 EDT 2007


Recently, Jim Ault wrote:

>> How do I tell the answer dialog that I *DON'T* want
>> the HTMLText?

>>  put url pathToServerFile into tData
> replace "<" with "[" in tData
> replace ">" with "]" in tData
>>  answer tData

Workable.  Thanks Jim.


> I don't know of a way to disable the feature of the
> built-in Answer dialog.  This, of course, allows a
> variety of formatting for the user.

True, but IIRC this behavior is somewhat new for Rev -- used to be that
"answer" displayed the raw (unformatted) text of whatever you fed it.  Seems
like there should be some kind of "show formatted" toggle or something built
on the HTMLtext property.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design





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