unrecognised character instead of Line break??

[Christian Grass]

I had the same problem. Windows & Mac use different linebreaks.

Windows needs a pair of numToChar(13) and numToChar(10) to recognize as
RETURN.
That is to say: it needs linefeed AND carriage-return.


You can use my script to clean up your text before writing it to a
textfile:

yourFieldText = member(yourFieldName).text
textToWrite = cleanOutput(yourFieldText)

------------------------------------------------
-- convert field text so that notepad can read it correctly

on cleanOutput oldText
CRLF = numToChar(13) & numToChar(10)
newText = ""
repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines in oldText
if n = 1 then
set newText = line n of oldText
else
set newText = newText & CRLF & line n of oldText
end if
end repeat
return newText
end
-------------------------------------------------

chris



On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:27:47 -0800, Ramesh <zobble@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am working on a file in director, where the content is coming from a
> flash file which is embedded in the flash file.
>
> I am storing the value in the textbox named TextHolder by using the
> following code.
> member("TextHolder").text= getVariable( sprite "SuccessMeter" ,
> "mytextvalue" )
>
> The value coming from the flash has line breaks. It shows perfectly
> right in the Flash as well as in the Director TextBox.
> But when i store the values of the textbox of Director to a external Txt
> file, it puts unrecognised character in place of the line break. The
> file is no more readable by flash.
>
> I need to replace the unrecognised character with a line break. Please
> Help!!
>
> If someone can give me a sample file or a link where i can get more
> info.. it will be great help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gunjan
>

[Christian Grass]

I had the same problem. Windows & Mac use different linebreaks.

Windows needs a pair of numToChar(13) and numToChar(10) to recognize as
RETURN.
That is to say: it needs linefeed AND carriage-return.


You can use my script to clean up your text before writing it to a
textfile:

yourFieldText = member(yourFieldName).text
textToWrite = cleanOutput(yourFieldText)

------------------------------------------------
-- convert field text so that notepad can read it correctly

on cleanOutput oldText
CRLF = numToChar(13) & numToChar(10)
newText = ""
repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines in oldText
if n = 1 then
set newText = line n of oldText
else
set newText = newText & CRLF & line n of oldText
end if
end repeat
return newText
end
-------------------------------------------------

chris



On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:27:47 -0800, Ramesh <zobble@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am working on a file in director, where the content is coming from a
> flash file which is embedded in the flash file.
>
> I am storing the value in the textbox named TextHolder by using the
> following code.
> member("TextHolder").text= getVariable( sprite "SuccessMeter" ,
> "mytextvalue" )
>
> The value coming from the flash has line breaks. It shows perfectly
> right in the Flash as well as in the Director TextBox.
> But when i store the values of the textbox of Director to a external Txt
> file, it puts unrecognised character in place of the line break. The
> file is no more readable by flash.
>
> I need to replace the unrecognised character with a line break. Please
> Help!!
>
> If someone can give me a sample file or a link where i can get more
> info.. it will be great help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gunjan
>

[Ramesh]

Hi,

I am working on a file in director, where the content is coming from a flash file which is embedded in the flash file.

I am storing the value in the textbox named TextHolder by using the following code.
member("TextHolder").text= getVariable( sprite "SuccessMeter" , "mytextvalue" )

The value coming from the flash has line breaks. It shows perfectly right in the Flash as well as in the Director TextBox.
But when i store the values of the textbox of Director to a external Txt file, it puts unrecognised character in place of the line break. The file is no more readable by flash.

I need to replace the unrecognised character with a line break. Please Help!!

If someone can give me a sample file or a link where i can get more info.. it will be great help.

Thanks in advance,
Gunjan