Throw me a frikkin bone

[richmond62]

Why is this NOT replacing every 'ѧ' with an image?
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[richmond62]

Obviously too much to expect someone to help.
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[OpenXTalkPaul]

Obviously too much to expect someone to help.
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That's more like a work around, 'replace' should replace every occurrence of your target unicode character in the field without that repeat loop.

Maybe try the newer form of 'replace', which is 'replace-in-feild' like so:
replace "Needle" with "Haystack" in field X preserving styles
Maybe that can handle the unicode better? It has a separate entry in the dictionary that says it was added in v7 (the other 'replace' entry say it was added in 1.0)

[richmond62]

Certainly worth a try . . . in due course . . . when I'm free . . .

Off to change the tyres on our car: seasonal requirement here in Bulgaria: what a ^&*()$#.

[richmond62]

Reading a bit more closely: that suggestion, Paul, is NOT going to solve the problem, as OXT Lite has NO problem at all showing Unicode characters inwith a text field.

The problem is 'beyond' that insofar that I bung unicode place marker characters in various locations in the text inwith a text field, and then replace them with images like this:

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if fld "DICK" contains "(constant)" then
      replace "(constant)" with (cr & numToCodePoint(1133) && "constant" & cr) in fld "DICK"
      set the caseSensitive to true
      repeat for each item MAGIC in "constant"
         put wordoffset(MAGIC , fld "DICK") into WITCH
         set the textColor of word WITCH of fld "DICK" to red
      end repeat
      put 1 into CYCLE
      repeat until CYCLE > GLYPHS
         if char CYCLE of fld "DICK" = numToCodePoint(1133) then
            set the imageSource of char CYCLE of fld "DICK" to 1365
         end if
         add 1 to CYCLE
      end repeat
   end if

What this DOES do is replace every instance of numToCodePoint(1133) with the image numbered 1365 and colour every instance of 'constant' red (as it should).

The PROBLEM is when this script runs:

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if fld "DICK" contains "(keyword)" then
      replace "(keyword)" with (cr & numToCodePoint(1134) && "keyword" & cr) in fld "DICK"
      set the caseSensitive to true
      repeat for each item MAGIC in "keyword"
         put wordoffset(MAGIC , fld "DICK") into WITCH
         set the textColor of word WITCH of fld "DICK" to red
      end repeat
      put 1 into CYCLE
      repeat until CYCLE > GLYPHS
         if char CYCLE of fld "DICK" = numToCodePoint(1134) then
            set the imageSource of char CYCLE of fld "DICK" to 1369
         end if
         add 1 to CYCLE
      end repeat
   end if

it replaces every instance of numToCodePoint(1134) with the image numbered 1369 and colour every instance of 'constant' red (as it should); BUT also removes all the instances of image number 1365 and set every instance of 'constant' back to black.

[richmond62]

To contextualise things further here is a stack that makes this explicitly clear:
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on mouseup
   if fld "GUFF" contains "cheese" then
      replace "cheese" with (numToCodePoint(1127) && "cheese") in fld "GUFF"
      set the caseSensitive to true
      repeat for each item MAGIC in "cheese"
         put wordoffset(MAGIC , fld "GUFF") into WITCH
         set the textColor of word WITCH of fld "GUFF" to red
      end repeat
      put 1 into CYCLE
      repeat until CYCLE > 1000
         if char CYCLE of fld "GUFF" = numToCodePoint(1127) then
            set the imageSource of char CYCLE of fld "GUFF" to 1007
         end if
         add 1 to CYCLE
      end repeat
   end if
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   if fld "GUFF" contains "fan" then
      replace "fan" with (numToCodePoint(1128) && "fan") in fld "GUFF"
      set the caseSensitive to true
      repeat for each item MAGIC in "fan"
         put wordoffset(MAGIC , fld "GUFF") into WITCH
         set the textColor of word WITCH of fld "GUFF" to purple
      end repeat
      put 1 into CYCLE
      repeat until CYCLE > 1000
         if char CYCLE of fld "GUFF" = numToCodePoint(1128) then
            set the imageSource of char CYCLE of fld "GUFF" to 1011
         end if
         add 1 to CYCLE
      end repeat
   end if
end mouseup

This code SHOULD:

1. Bung a 'Ch' image in front of each occurrence of the word 'cheese'.

2. Colour each occurrence of the word 'cheese' red.

3. Bung an 'F' image in front of each occurrence of the word 'fan'.

4. Colour each occurrence of the word 'fan' purple.

It does DO #1 (you can see this IF you put a wait in the code in the button ('Fromage Dure'); but the code for #3 and wipes the 'Ch' images out and reverts to the unicode place marker characters.

It ONLY manages to colour the first occurrence of 'cheese' red (#2), which is subsequently wiped out when the code ONLY manages to colour the first occurrence of 'fan' purple.

So, the whole shebang is not fit for purpose.

[richmond62]

And this is a load of cobblers:
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[richmond62]

Of course THIS works (re colourisation):

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on mouseup
   put the htmlText of fld "GUFF" into GUPH
   replace "cheese" with  "<font color=" & quote & "red" & quote & ">cheese</font>"  in GUPH
   replace "fan" with  "<font color=" & quote & "purple" & quote & ">fan</font>"  in GUPH
   set the htmlText of fld "GUFF" to GUPH
end mouseup

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Whether one can, subsequently, insert images has yet to be seen.

[richmond62]

Well, THIS worked:

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on mouseup
   if fld "GUFF" contains "cheese" then
      replace "cheese" with (numToCodePoint(1127) && "cheese") in fld "GUFF"
   end if
   if fld "GUFF" contains "fan" then
      replace "fan" with (numToCodePoint(1128) && "fan") in fld "GUFF"
      end if
      put the htmlText of fld "GUFF" into GUPH
      replace "cheese" with  "<font color=" & quote & "red" & quote & ">cheese</font>"  in GUPH
      replace "fan" with  "<font color=" & quote & "purple" & quote & ">fan</font>"  in GUPH
      set the htmlText of fld "GUFF" to GUPH
   end mouseup

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A really bad case of:
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[richmond62]

Cripes:

https://youtu.be/QbdCpi4qTNY

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on mouseup
   if fld "GUFF" contains "cheese" then
      replace "cheese" with (numToCodePoint(1127) && "cheese") in fld "GUFF"
   end if
   if fld "GUFF" contains "fan" then
      replace "fan" with (numToCodePoint(1128) && "fan") in fld "GUFF"
   end if
   ----
   put the htmlText of fld "GUFF" into GUPH
   replace "cheese" with  "<font color=" & quote & "red" & quote & ">cheese</font>"  in GUPH
   replace "fan" with  "<font color=" & quote & "purple" & quote & ">fan</font>"  in GUPH
   set the htmlText of fld "GUFF" to GUPH
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   put the number of chars in fld "GUFF" into GNUM
   put 1 into CYCLE
   repeat until CYCLE > GNUM
      if char CYCLE of fld "GUFF" = numToCodePoint(1127) then
         set the imageSource of char CYCLE of fld "GUFF" to 1007
      end if
      if char CYCLE of fld "GUFF" = numToCodePoint(1128) then
         set the imageSource of char CYCLE of fld "GUFF" to 1011
      end if
      add 1 to CYCLE
   end repeat
end mouseup

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