1. EuGrid Weirdness
- Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com>
Jan 28, 2005
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Last edited Jan 29, 2005
I'm populating a EuGrid and some of my data is thus:
"Howard & Sons Inc"
When I put it in the EuGrid, though, it interprets the ampersand as a
quick-key item and shows it thusly:
"Howard _Sons Inc"
Is that a bug or should I be doing something else? :)
-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/
2. Re: EuGrid Weirdness
cklester wrote:
>
> I'm populating a EuGrid and some of my data is thus:
>
> "Howard & Sons Inc"
>
> When I put it in the EuGrid, though, it interprets the ampersand as a
> quick-key item and shows it thusly:
>
> "Howard _Sons Inc"
>
> Is that a bug or should I be doing something else? :)
>
> -=ck
> "Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
> <a
> href="http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/">http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/</a>
>
CK,
I just tried that here at home and the & is displayed correctly. What
version of EuGrid are you using?
Jonas Temple
http://www.yhti.net/~jktemple
3. Re: EuGrid Weirdness
- Posted by Ferlin Scarborough <ferlin1 at bellsouth.net>
Jan 29, 2005
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Last edited Jan 30, 2005
cklester wrote:
>
> I'm populating a EuGrid and some of my data is thus:
>
> "Howard & Sons Inc"
>
> When I put it in the EuGrid, though, it interprets the ampersand as a
> quick-key item and shows it thusly:
>
> "Howard _Sons Inc"
>
> Is that a bug or should I be doing something else? :)
>
> -=ck
> "Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
> <a
> href="http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/">http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/</a>
>
CK,
I'm not sure about this in regards to EuGrid, but I have seen in a couple of
other Winows programming languages, in order to get the & character to print
as an ampresand instead of an underline, you have to double it like:
"Howard && Sons Inc"
I thought since I have seen this in more than one language that has support
for windows programming, that it was a win32api thing.
Later.
Ferlin Scarborough
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http://www.gameuniv.net
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4. Re: EuGrid Weirdness
- Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com>
Jan 29, 2005
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Last edited Jan 30, 2005
Ferlin Scarborough wrote:
>
> I'm not sure about this in regards to EuGrid, but I have seen in a couple of
> other Winows programming languages, in order to get the & character to print
> as an ampresand instead of an underline, you have to double it like:
>
> "Howard && Sons Inc"
>
> I thought since I have seen this in more than one language that has support
> for windows programming, that it was a win32api thing.
>
Ferlin:
You are correct this is what the MSDN says :
An ampersand (&) character in the text indicates that the
following character is used as a mnemonic character for the control.
When the control is displayed, the ampersand is not shown, but the
mnemonic character is underlined. The user can choose the control by
pressing the key corresponding to the underlined mnemonic character.
To use the ampersand as a character in a string, insert two
ampersands (&&).
Bernie
My files in archive:
w32engin.ew mixedlib.e eu_engin.e win32eru.ew
Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan
5. Re: EuGrid Weirdness
Ferlin Scarborough wrote:
>
> I'm not sure about this in regards to EuGrid, but I have seen in a couple of
> other Windows programming languages, in order to get the & character to print
> as an ampresand instead of an underline, you have to double it like:
>
> "Howard && Sons Inc"
>
> I thought since I have seen this in more than one language that has support
> for windows programming, that it was a win32api thing.
Well, you don't have to do that for a text box, right? Or do you? I wouldn't
think EuGrid would interpret text in a cell to have a hotkey marker, but
maybe it does! :)
Jonas, I don't know what version I have. I'll have to check when I get
back to work on Monday.
Thanks!
-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/
6. Re: EuGrid Weirdness
Hi CK,
This was a bug in earlier releases of EuGrid - AFAIK it should be fixed in
the current version. Please let me know if it isn't!
For anybody interested, I think the reason it was happening is that EuGrid is
based on a Windows PushButton control. I did this to get around a limitation
that existed in win32lib at that time - namely that you couldn't create
a vanilla window as a child of another window. The default behaviour
in button controls seems to be to convert an ampersand (&) to an
underline (_) in displayed text.
Various people pointed this out a year or so back, and suggested different
solutions. In the end I found a flag in DrawText (DT_NOPREFIX) which
appears to suppress this behaviour.
HTH,
Phil
cklester wrote:
>
> Ferlin Scarborough wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure about this in regards to EuGrid, but I have seen in a couple of
> > other Windows programming languages, in order to get the & character to
> > print
> > as an ampresand instead of an underline, you have to double it like:
> >
> > "Howard && Sons Inc"
> >
> > I thought since I have seen this in more than one language that has support
> > for windows programming, that it was a win32api thing.
>
> Well, you don't have to do that for a text box, right? Or do you? I wouldn't
> think EuGrid would interpret text in a cell to have a hotkey marker, but
> maybe it does! :)
>
> Jonas, I don't know what version I have. I'll have to check when I get
> back to work on Monday.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -=ck
> "Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
> <a
> href="http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/">http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/</a>
>
