alan@mtxinu.COM (Alan Tobey) (05/09/89)
I know that tabs aren't visually represented within Hypercard fields -- but Hypercard somehow maintains a record of where tab characters reside. I'm trying to retrieve this information so I can kludgily pad out tabs with spaces for an application which requires that. For example, if you paste tabular data into a Hypercard field, the tabs disappear -- even looking char by char at the chars or charToNum's of the contents of the field shows nothing where the tab is embedded. But if you cut the field content and paste it into a word processor, the tabs reappear in their proper places. So: How do I find them hidden tab chars in the contents of a field?
dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (05/09/89)
In article <850@mtxinu.UUCP> alan@mtxinu.COM (Alan Tobey) writes: >I know that tabs aren't visually represented within Hypercard fields -- but > Hypercard somehow maintains a record of where tab characters reside. Actually HyperCard DELETES all characters less than ASCII 32 (except for a carriage return) when closing a field. This is probably not the right thing to do, but that what it does. This means that importing text into a field maintains the tab (which is not displayed), but as soon as you click in the text, the tab is removed. Usually a tab appears just like a space, but after removing it the text gets squashed together. This will be fixed in HC 2.0. Dan Allen Apple Computer