Carriage returns in the middle of a column will also mess up the datagrid if you are using the dgText rather than the dgData property. It makes the datagrid think a new line of data has started in the middle of the column. Pete
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Paul Looney <simpl...@aol.com> wrote: > Are there characters that prevent a Data Grid from displaying? > > We have Data Grid in the UI front end to a database. > For years it has worked well with databases for many different customers. > Recently the data from one customer would not display. Stepping through > the code, all was well until the end - setting the dgtext of the data grid. > The scroll bars resized properly. The number or records listed was right. > Clicking on a line in the Data Grid opened the record viewer. > But no data was displayed in the Data Grid fields. > > The same grid continued to work with data from other customers. That > customer's data was visible in other grids. > > It is just that this one grid will not display data from this one account. > > We already strip out NULLs (from our experience with sorting problems) but > are there other characters that would cause a Data Grid to not display data? > > Or should we look elsewhere? > > Thanks in advance, > Paul Looney > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode