Thanks geoff. I was afraid I might have to do that. I was hoping to "flip a
switch."
BTW - It's ascii 10. At least its TIDs :-) which is fast.
Joe
>Yes, you're going to have to replace the vertical tabs FileMaker uses to mark
>line endings and replace them with the return character (ascii 13). I think
>the ascii of the vertical tab is 11, so your script function might look like
>this:
>
>on ReplaceReturns(x)
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {ASCII character 11}
> set textlist to text items of x
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return}
> set newtext to textlist as string
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
> return newtext
>end ReplaceReturns
>
>geoff
>
>On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Joe wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>I'm using FMP 9.0v3 on a G5 Mac. When I copy text containing linefeeds and
>>paste it into a FMP field, the text displays properly with line breaks in all
>>the right places.
>>
>>If I 'get' the text with AppleScript, the field displays no line endings. It
>>looks like one big paragraph.
>>
>>Is there a setting in FMP I'm missing that will allow FMP to properly display
>>linefeeds 'gotten' with AppleScript? Or, do I need a search and replace in my
>>AppleScript?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Joe
