Popups with |'s (OpenInsight 16-Bit Specific)
At 10 APR 2002 07:51:36PM F Dietrich wrote:
I tried to make a popup in the UI Workspace with literal data to choose field delimiters for an ASCII export off of. We only allow certain delimiters and one of them is the |. Unfortunately, a popup with literal data uses the | as a column delimiter, so I can't get a | to actually be a row in the popup. Is there any way I can put a | in popup literal data? Is there, for example, an escape character I can use?
At 10 APR 2002 08:11PM Robert Lee wrote:
I assume you have similiar problems with other common ASCII delimiters such as Tab (useful with Excel).
Whether or not someone else is able to answer your question remains to be seen, but you certainly could use text to give the user the same options. Eg:
Tab
Pipe Symbol ( | )
Comma
Hope that helps.
Robert Lee
At 10 APR 2002 10:49PM Don Miller - C3I wrote:
Yup .. that's what we do. In fact there are a number of choices offered in english as described above:
Comma
Asterisk
Pipe or V-Bar
Tilde
Period … very risky by the way
Single Quote
Double Quote
HTH
Don
At 11 APR 2002 11:00AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
F,
You could also make your own dialog, containing
- a suitable caption
- a list box showing the relevant delimiters; make it yellow if you want your dialog to look more popup-like
- an OK button (set up as default button)
- a Cancel button (set up as default cancel button)
- a few lines of programming to return the value selected in the list box.
- Oystein -
At 11 APR 2002 01:55PM Richard Guise wrote:
From what I recollect the vert bar character originally used an ASCII 124 which Arev used for popup delimiters. Then Microsoft or IBM or soomeone (Bless their cotton sock!) changed the keyboard character so that the vert bar generated a different character. Result - confusion!
Hence we always type vert bar (in OI as well as Arev) by holding down Alt and keying 124 on the keypad.
Is this what you're after?