I am a pinhead: I ended up dipping into that horrible VB6 book again.
Any way I bumped up against ye olde ASCII codes and 'Vertical Tab'
(ASCII 11) [something
I had never heard of before]. So, "just for a laugh" I popped this into
a button:
on mouseUp
set the text of fld "fText" to numToCodePoint(77) &
numToCodePoint(11) & numToCodePoint(77)
end mouseUp
and started wondering what possible advantages Vertical Tab might have over
a CR (13) or a LF (10):
I set up 2 more buttons using CR and LF respectively and found that the
behaved oddly
in that
on mouseUp
set the text of fld "fText" to numToCodePoint(77) &
numToCodePoint(13) & numToCodePoint(77)
end mouseUp
gave me a single 'M' in the field
while LF, as far as I could see, was functionally the same as Vertical Teb.
I am aware that historically Vertical Tab was used to play around with
dot-matrix printers,
but the only place I've seen one of them recently is in ALL the
supermarkets in Bulgaria (!!!).
Richmond.
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