I too remember the good ‘ol days Roger and in fact still have one of my
eLearning shell projects that still runs stand-alone on both Catalina and
Windows, although I’d have to check which version of Windows. The project has
stacks calling stacks and external media. The MacOS stand-alone versio
From an old dudes perspective whose brain needs rebooting on a regular basis,
two books that are a must for anybody coding are;
- Bill Bryson’s "A short History of Nearly Everything" which puts the world
into perspective.
and
- Douglas Adam's five book trilogy “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Gal
Jim,
I’ve had this before with other accounts, albeit not run-rev. It’s always a
problem with the server thinking I’m sending spam when eMailing to many
addresses. Even if you get the IP address removed from a blacklist you run the
risk of it getting put on again without any notification. I s
tx command in rtf that sets the
> tab size. I used it long time ago so I don’t remember of it was relative or
> absolut positions but I do think it should be doable…
>
> :-Håkan
> On 8 Apr 2019, 18:25 +0200, Robert J. Earp via use-livecode
> , wrote:
>> Thanks for the rep
Many thanks Paul and to Ron Metzker who kindly contacted me off-list with a
comprehensive handler of what he does using revPrintField. I must admit that
the Dictionary still leaves a lot to be desired and without the valued members
of this and other lists LC would not be so successful ;-)
We
suggests yes.
best, Bob...
> Subject: Re: Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its
> formatting
>
> Robert J. Earp wrote:
>
>> I?m not sure if the HTMLText solution will work for us as by default
>> the output file would open in a browser
Many thanks for all of the great response and from such experts !!
I’m not sure if the HTMLText solution will work for us as by default the output
file would open in a browser and we need to get it into .pdf format to assemble
(in Acrobat) with the other parts of the report.
RogerG and I are cu
ot;)
>
> And then reading it back to a new field with:
>
> set the rtfText of field "Y" to URL
> ("file:"&specialFolderPath("desktop")&slash&"savedfield.rtf")
>
> and the tab spacing is not preserved?
>
>
>
>
Dear all, we have a field that is formatted nicely with tabs and want to save
that as a file, retaining the tab formatting. The saved file format ideally
should be .rtf but we may be able to use other formats such as .pdf
Anybody got any ideas how to do this ?
Thanks in advance for your sugges
Thanks Paul, light bulb duly switched on !! I thought Jacque was referring to
the left-hand Keyword column, duh :-P
Happy Thanksgiving BTW :-)
best, Bob...
> Bob,
>
> I think you are missing the point of?
>
>> 1. Select the object in left-hand column.
>
> Look at the far left column, th
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