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Article #6348Re: AnsiString and the LineFeed char
From: Jonathan Benedicto
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:17
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:17
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"Robert G. Hoover" <not.a.real.address@anywhere.sorry> wrote in message news:428a506b$1@newsgroups.borland.com... >I tried \r\n as you suggested and I see the \r\n characters in my >TMemo. I don't understand why my \n is not being interpreted >correctly. If I hardcode the AnsiString with a \n in the middle, then >the TMemo displays the AnsiString as 2 lines, as expected. But, if I >use TButton->Hint and set that value in the Object Inspector, then I >get a \\n or \\r\\n in my AnsiString and a \n or \r\n in my TMemo >with no line breaks. If the debugger shows the string as containing a >\\r\\n, and assuming that that is what is stored in the AnsiString, >then that would explain why I see \r\n in the TMemo rather than a >linefeed... :( The Object Inspector automatically escapes any forward slashes typed into it. So if you put "Hello\nThere" into the Caption property of a button using the OI, the OI is actually putting "Hello\\nThere" into the caption field. HTH Jonathan
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