Hi Mike and Mark, Thank you both for your suggestions! I will give them a good try and get back to you.
Thanks again, Rick > On Jun 19, 2017, at 2:50 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Theres a couple things I do... For items like an href that are pretty > predictable, I have a stack file with a template that can be used with > merge. > > So I'd have <A HREF="[[tUrl]]">[[tUrl]]</a> in a property and merge that > sucker in. (could use a description in a variable rather than a 2nd tUrl if > you'd like > > put "http://www.google.com"; into tUrl > put merge(the atag of stack "whatever") and voila, there it is. > > Alternatively, remember that you can open and close the lc tags at your > convenience. > > So instead of jumping through hoops, you can close the lc tag ?> then put > your reference > <A HREF="http://www.google.com"; onmouseover="movepic('button','pic-off.gif')" > onmouseout="movepic('button','pic-on.gif')"><IMG NAME="button" > SRC="pic-off.gif" ALT="Image"></A> > > then open lc again with <?lc > > You should even be able to put tiny chunks of lc interspersed into your > href by <?lc put "http://www.google.com"; ?> right inside the thing. > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> I have a nice example button image swap routine >> written in JavaScript which I’d like to use in a .lc script. >> >> To use HTML etc. within a .lc script I have to put >> the statement in double quotes such as: >> >> put “<html>” >> >> or >> >> put “<A HREF=‘http://www.google.com' <http://www.google.com'/>>” >> >> where I have to substitute single quotes for the normal double quotes to >> make it work. >> >> That’s fine until I have a statement that is already using both double and >> single quotes. >> The statement still needs to be converted into a .lc script format. The >> following statement >> will get parsed the wrong way if one wants to put it into double quotes. >> >> <A HREF="http://www.google.com"; onmouseover="movepic('button','pic-off.gif')" >> onmouseout="movepic('button','pic-on.gif')"><IMG NAME="button" >> SRC="pic-off.gif" ALT="Image"></A> >> >> becomes: >> >> put "<A HREF="http://www.google.com"; >> onmouseover="movepic('button','pic-off.gif')" >> onmouseout="movepic('button','pic-on.gif')"><IMG NAME="button" >> SRC="pic-off.gif" ALT="Image"></A>” >> >> As you can see the above statement will not be parsed correctly. >> >> Suggestions? >> >> On a related note, if a user types in a word such as “can’t” into a field, >> the apostrophe gets interpreted as >> a single quote and that messes up the parsing of various .lc script >> statements too. >> >> How do you usually solve these issues? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rick >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > 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/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ 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/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
