My technique if the last line empty is important get the number of lines in (fld listing & null) which will always be accurate.
Jim Ault Las Vegas On 4/4/06 6:49 PM, "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a recurring question, due to the way rev handles empty lines. > If I have this right, an empty line at the end of a list (or field, or > whatever) will not be counted, while an empty line that is not the > last line will be. There are differing views about whether this is > desirable behaviour, but it's what happens... > > Best, > > Mark > > On 4/5/06, Garrett Hylltun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Rev 2.6.1 / MacOS X >> >> Greetings, >> >> I'm not sure if I'm overlooking something or if it's just the way Rev >> works, but when I start a new line in a multi-line field from the last >> line in the field, the new line is not being counted using; >> >> put the number of lines of field "fEditor" into varTotalLines >> >> (or maybe it is, but the way I'm handling the messages isn't correct), >> unless I type another character or space. >> >> This only seems to happen though if you are on the last line of the >> field and hit the enter key. If you are on another line before the last >> line and hit the enter key, no problem. Or, if you are on the line that >> is not being counted and hit the backspace key, a line from the count is >> removed, but the line you are on is still not being counted. >> >> I've uploaded a small test file if anyone is interested in checking this >> out to see if I'm doing something wrong. >> >> http://www.paraboliclogic.com/misc/totallinesproblem.rev >> >> Messages used are in the "Field" script and the code for the number of >> lines is in the "Stack" script. >> >> If this little anomaly can be made to go away, great, if not, I guess I >> can live with it. >> >> Thanks, >> -Garrett >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution