Razzak
I am sorry but I can not find a Varchar field in RRBYW14.
Am I still missing the nose in front of my face?
Basically it seems the blank lines between paragraphs stay
when using a Note field and DB Memo., but it gets all smashed
together with the line feed character when using Varchar and
DB Memo or the Rich Text.
Thanks for your patience.
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[email protected]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:41 AM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Keeping fromat on Varchar fields
At 10:10 AM 1/8/2009, Marc Schluter wrote:
I am working on a form in 7.6 .
I look up canned text from a table that is in a Note field. This text can
have blank lines between paragraphs. Then this text is added to a DB Meno
for a note field on my main form to make form letters. The blank lines
stay between the paragraphs.
When I change the note filed to Varchar on the main form I loose the blank
lines and get ^^ instead of the blank lines. ^^ if my linefeed character.
I tried changing to Rich Text for the varchar field but I still get ^
instead of blank lines.
Is there some setting or property command I am missing?
Marc,
Check the default "LINEEND" character setting.
SHOW CHARACTERS at the R> prompt will reveal the current settings.
That should give you some blues clues ...
In addition, take a look at the entire RRBYW14 application included with
R:BASE 7.6 for Windows and see how things are lined up there in forms and
custom letters (reports) based on VARCHAR data type.
Very Best R:egards,
Razzak.
