Thank you for spending the time on this. Like all your posts it is an education! Great idea to convert just a visible part of text! I am going to study well and work on this.
On the live conversion, you are adding a unicode character before a space, say. That means two characters and therefore two character widths. Is there a way of making spaces zero width, or the new characters overlapping the space etc? Ideally I want the text widths of lines to be the same with and without the visible chars. On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 15:06, hh via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Kaveh wrote: > > I need the user to edit as normal and with normal functionality but see > the normally > > invisible characters. So seems I would need a native solution. :-( > > This works for me (TMHO, this demonstrates the beauty of LC). > Script your field with the following. > > on rawkeyDown k > switch k > case 32 -- space > put numToCodePoint(0x00B7)&numToCodePoint(0x200A) into the selection > break > case 65293 -- return > put numToCodePoint(0x23CE)&cr into the selection > break > case 65289 -- tab > -- put tab&numToCodePoint(0x21E5) into the selection -- alternate > put numToCodePoint(0x21E5)&tab into the selection > break > default > pass rawkeydown > end switch > end rawkeyDown > > For converting the whole field *or a visible part of it* (you could use a > check button) > use the replace-script of my last post. For a few lines (< 500), put into > a temporary > field, conversion preserving styles is still fast. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Kaveh Bazargan Director River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalleytechnologies.com/> • Twitter <https://twitter.com/kaveh1000> • LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> _______________________________________________ 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
