Program a Soft Return

[quailcreek]

Hi,
I'm doing this in iOS but I don't think that should make a difference. What I want to do is replace a cr with a soft cr in a container. Right now I'm just replacing the cr with a space but that doesn't follow the users intent. I've looked at shiftKey in the dictionary but I'm not sure. Thanks for any help.

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replace cr with space in tUserNotes

[mwieder]

OK - I'll bite... what's a 'soft cr'?

[quailcreek]

I think it's also called a sticky return. I MS work you hold down the shift key and press return. I allows the text lines to stay in one paragraph.

[FourthWorld]

In LiveCode, when a field's dontWrap is false (the default) 0x11 can be used to create the appearance of a new line without creating a new paragraph (v5.5.4 and later).

[quailcreek]

Hi Richard,
The don't wrap is false on the fld. I'm not sure what you mean by 0x11 can be used. Is that ASCII?

[FourthWorld]

Yes. In LiveCode you can get that character with numToChar(11).

[quailcreek]

Thank you, Richard. That worked perfectly... as I'm sure you knew it would.