SelectedText Error

[montymay]

My stack has number of cards with locked fields with their list behavior set to true. The script for each field puts the selected text of each line into a variable, and then "go cd <variable>" takes the user to a card of the same name. Today, it has a persistent error: the selected text contains two spaces between each character, e.g., the word "farmer" in the field is transformed by the program into "f a r m e r," so, of course, it does not find the corresponding card named "farmer." The OS is Windows 7. An identical stack on my Windows 8.1 laptop, running under the same version of LC (6.6.2), does not have the error. Hoping there is a fix, I thank you for any suggestions.

Monty

[dunbarx]

Hi.

I assume you use a "mouseUp" handler in the script of each list field to get the selectedText?

Have you tried to check the contents of the field in the very first line of such a handler? Set a breakpoint, and put the full text into a variable. See what sits there, and then get the selectedText, and see if it mirrors the particular line of text you saw originally.

I don't suppose there is any little gadget that separates the chars with spaces anywhere?

Craig Newman

[WaltBrown]

I had the

f a r m e r

problem when I was converting to and from Unicode in variables and Unicode fields. That may be a place to start looking.