On Mar 19, 2014, at 9:57 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> On 3/19/14, 10:25 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> I am struggling to see when this would present an impassible problem. > > I grant that it's trivial and not a high priority. But it makes the language > inconsistent, and I see that as the primary issue. > > I gave an example in another post of how it could affect scripts. Try this in > a newly created field with no content: > > set the cText of this cd to the htmltext of fld 1 > put (the cText of this cd = empty) > > Empty is no longer empty. Sometimes it will matter. HtmlText is an odd beast. I think Robert may be on the right track when he wonders about it being an add-on. Try this: Paste the following html list markup in field "source": <ol> <li>List item 1</li> <li>List item 2</li> </ol> Now use it as the source to set the htmlText of another field "dest": set the htmlText of fld "dest" to fld "source" Now examine the htmlText of fld "dest". You get this: <ol type="1"> <li> <p>List item 1</p> </li> <li> <p>List item 2</p> </li> </ol> Now manually select the text in fld "dest" and hit delete. The contents of fld "dest" looks like this: 1. No matter what you do you can't manually delete the first list item marker. The htmlText of "dest" now looks like this: <ol type="1"> <li> <p></p> </li> </ol> The field thinks it's a list and you can't change it's mind. Unless you do this: put empty into fld "dest" At which point the htmlText is <p></p>. Which is where this all started. :) We had an interesting discussion of the html list issue in the Quality Control center a couple of years ago: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9342 Best, Devin Asay Learn to code with LiveCode University http://university.livecode.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
