HTML Text in answer does not work on android

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mrcoollion
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HTML Text in answer does not work on android

Post by mrcoollion » Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:29 pm

I have put HTML text in a hidden field and show that field with

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Answer fld "HelpText"
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This works really nice in development mode on my PC but when I transfer the stack to android I only see plain text with the html code in it. Also I have set a standard icon for this button but that also does not show in android. In fact if I use a standard icon the button seemingly is not there at all until i remove the icon.

What am I doing wrong ?!

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Re: HTML Text in answer does not work on android

Post by Klaus » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:41 pm

Hi mrcoollion,
What am I doing wrong ?!
nothing actually!

On Mac, Win and Linux the ASK and ANSWER dialogs are just plain LC stacks,
but on iOS and ANDROID these dialog windows are supplied by the underlying OS,
which of course does not understand what "htmltext" is, so the dialogs will simply
display the raw html CODE.


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Klaus

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Re: HTML Text in answer does not work on android

Post by mrcoollion » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:49 am

Thanks Klaus,

You saved me a lot of investigating time.
Pitty that HTML with answer does not work on Android.
Any other way to show a HTML Text? E.g. Showing and hiding an HTML text Field with scroll bars ?

Regards,

Paul

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Re: HTML Text in answer does not work on android

Post by Klaus » Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:30 am

Dag Paul,
mrcoollion wrote:Any other way to show a HTML Text? E.g. Showing and hiding an HTML text Field with scroll bars ?
yes, should work without problem.


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klaus

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