Re: Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-15 Thread Malte Brill
Ok, getting a step further with this. This does work, but is rather ugly: To Read out a current label of the comboBox: on mouseUp lock screen local tProps,tSelection select the text of btn "Combo" focus on btn "Combo" answer the selection put the unicodeText of the selection i

Re: Re: Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Forget what I said earlier. No good results at all. For now I give up. :( ___ 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/mail

Re: Re: Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
The function mentioned by Ron Barber here: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode//2011-June/157016.html helps. At least if it is either or... No good results for mixed languages though. local tUni,tAsUTF16 put the selectedText of btn "combo" into tUni put RawDataToUTF16(tUni) into

RE: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Slava Paperno
e > Subject: Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes > > Hi Malte, > > As you might know, I made my own combobox (List Search Field). Perhaps > you can look at how I did it and adjust it for unicode. That might be > easier than trying to make the combobox work with unicode.

RE: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Slava Paperno
o: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Unicode again, this time comboboxes > > Hi all, > > please bear with me, while I ask more (seemingly stupid) unicode > questions. This time it is about comboboxes. > > The only way to get the choice of this is to ask for the select

Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Malte, As you might know, I made my own combobox (List Search Field). Perhaps you can look at how I did it and adjust it for unicode. That might be easier than trying to make the combobox work with unicode. (garlic) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Re: Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Mark, not in a combobox I am afraid, as there is free text entry for that control... *sigh* ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://

Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Malte, Can't you use the menuhistory and avoid using text? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for Live

Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, please bear with me, while I ask more (seemingly stupid) unicode questions. This time it is about comboboxes. The only way to get the choice of this is to ask for the selectedtext of btn "myCombobox). This will either return an UTF16 or an Ansii string. Now, is there a way to put that