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

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 10:36:20 EDT 2014


On 19/03/14 16:30, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Richmond,
>
> That's a matter of interpretation. By "clearing the htmlText" I mean 
> "resetting it to "<p></p>".

Well, now we have 2 conumdrums for the price of one:

1. When is 'empty' empty?

2. When does "clearing the text" clear the text?

Well; even if nothing else, some of us have had a wee drop of fun at a 
slack time in the week :)

Richmond.

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> On 3/19/2014 15:12, Richmond wrote:
>> 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.
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