OpenEuphoria

Re: MLE Text - Format

• Posted by Greg Haberek <g.haberek at comcast.net> Apr 25, 2003
• 419 views

> but alas I just get black lines for the "\n" line feed. However this
> works fine for the printer that's why I wonder if I should be using MLE
> or something else.
>

Quite a simple fix! MLE text needs a CRLF to make a new line, not just an
LF. For those who don't know, '\r' is carriage-return (CR) and '\n' is
line-feed (LF).    so rather than putting just '\n' after each line, put
"\r\n" and that will solve the problem.

I usually do this:

-- begin sample code --

global constant CRLF = "\r\n"

global procedure putLines( integer id, sequence lines )
-- writes a sequence of lines to an MLE text
sequence outText

    outText = ""

    for i = 1 to length(lines) do
        outText &= lines[i] & CRLF
    end for

    setText( id, outText )
end procedure

global procedure addLines( integer id, sequence lines )
-- same as putLines() but appends, rather than overwrites
sequence outText

    outText = getText( id ) & CRLF

    for i = 1 to length(lines) do
        outText &= lines[i] & CRLF
    end for

    setText( id, outText )
end procedure

-- end sample code --