Special character entry on Windows

Ralph DiMola rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
Thu Oct 27 15:52:33 EDT 2016


Devin,

I tested on Win 10 pro VM and fired up the ol' XP. Results were the same.

Works in 6.7.6 and 6.7.11
Does not work in 7.1.4, 8.1.1 and 9.0 dp1

This affect LC fields, Message box and Inspector. I was testing with 0200(È). If you test in the message box you will see the 2 key does a down arrow. The alt key is doing nothing. It's a bug.


Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Devin Asay
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 2:31 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Special character entry on Windows

Hi all,

I’m trying to answer a question on Stack Overflow, but my Windows knowledge is lacking in this area.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40230386/simple-user-entry-forspecial-characters-in-livecode-fields/40251025?noredirect=1#comment67771037_40251025 <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40230386/simple-user-entry-forspecial-characters-in-livecode-fields/40251025?noredirect=1#comment67771037_40251025>

I thought you could enter accented characters and characters with diacriticals in LiveCode my using the standard Windows alt+numbers method. This doesn’t work for me in 8.1.0, however (the only version I have available to me on Windows at the moment.) Is this a bug? Does it work in earlier versions?

Thanks for any help.

Devin


Devin Asay
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