Hi Judy, Just took a quick look at your stack - the issue you are having with the missing text is that the group 'contents' that contains the fields 'Content' and 'Topic' is invisible - setting the visible property to true should make the text appear.
Best wishes, Mark. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Waddingahm ~ 36degrees @ runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution ~ User-Centric Development Tools On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Judy Perry wrote: > Okay... (deep breath): > > Not only do my fonts go FUBAR half-way through my stack (as witnessed by > folks participating in the RevChat yesterday), BUT... > > Some fields do not show up AT ALL. (I had thought that maybe the kiddies > had somehow selected them and hit the delete button when I wasn't looking, > but no, this is not the case). > > Previously working script: > > on preOpenCard > hide image "ChemProjectSm2.jpg" > hide image "ChemProjectSm3.jpg" > hide image "ChemProjectSm4.jpg" > > put "Revolution cards can contain..." && return into fld "Content" > end preOpenCard > on openCard > wait 1 secs > put return && return && " Text " && return after the last line of fld > "Content" > wait 1 sec > show image "ChemProjectSm2.jpg" > wait 1 secs > put " Images " && return after the last line of fld "Content" > wait 1 sec > show image "ChemProjectSm3.jpg" > wait 1 secs > > put " Buttons" after the last line of fld "Content" > wait 1 sec > show image "ChemProjectSm4.jpg" > wait 2 secs > > end openCard > > So, you see that what I'm trying to do is, on a timed basis, put lines of > text into a field named "Content". > > I see nothing. I get no error messages. > > I check the application browser; sure enough, the field exists. > Double-clicking it from there I can access contents. And, sure enough, in > the contents view, I SEE MY TEXT. But I don't see it on screen. > > If I ask Rev to return the contents of the field using an answer command > in the message box, I get my contents. BUT NOT ONSCREEN. (reaching for > inhaler...) > > Why, in the name of anyone's favorite deity, is this happening? I cannot > see/select the field, but the app browser reports that it's there... > > (for anybody still with me, it's card 13 of Revtour.rev.zip found at: > http://ecs.fullerton.edu/~jperryl/RevTour.rev.zip). > > Aaarrgggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!! > > (feeling like Bloat in Finding Nemo...) > > Judy > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution