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Newbie Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 6

I have a string list with things that I want to display in the status window, for example:

#var teststring {"~<s~>abc~<~/s~>|~<u~>def~<~/u~>|~<b~>bold~<~/b~>"}

and I want to display it in the status window such that if I modify this list, the status window will change as well:

#stw {%item(@teststring,1) %cr %item(@teststring,2) %cr %item(@teststring,3) }

However, the MXP commands don't seem to come out right. the < and >'s are always stripped for some weird reason.

If, however, I use arrays:

#var teststring {%array("~<s~>abc~<~/s~>","~<u~>def~<~/u~>","~<b~>bold~<~/b~>")}

and I display it as:

#stw {%arrget(teststring,1) %cr %arrget(teststring,2) %cr %arrget(teststring,3) }

everything comes out right.

The problem is, I want the display using string lists because they are easier to handle and because you cannot duplicate an array easily (refer to my previous post).

Is there a way this can be done?

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

Your fist example works fine for me in 7.05.

strikes
Underlines
bolds

those values in my status window....

Also instead of using the %item method you can use
%expandlist(@teststring,%cr)

IF you still can't get it to work try this
#var teststring {"~<s~>abc~<~/s~>|~<u~>def~<~/u~>|~<b~>bold~<~/b~>"}
#SHOW @teststring
#SHOW %quote(@teststring)

and give us the output

Newbie Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 6

I can't use expandlist.. the code I use is closer to:

%item(@isstrike,1)%item(@itemlist,1)%item(@isstrikeend,1)
%item(@isstrike,2)%item(@itemlist,2)%item(@isstrikeend,2)

etc.

where isstrike = <s>|<s>|<s> or |||| or some permutation in between.. depending on whether itemX should be struck.

Basically this gives me a list of items, and I can choose whether to strike them out (strikeendX = </s> if strikeX = <s>)

the problems lie in the isstrike vars.

i'll try your other suggestions when i get home.

Newbie Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 6

I managed to fix the status window bit.. but now I'm stuck with a new problem.

I have the list of strikethrus:

#var StrikeThru "~<s~>|||~<s~>"

now I wish to make the Xth element a strike thru as well... but doing:

#var StrikeThru %replaceitem("~<s~>",@X,@StrikeThru)

converts all the previous <s> to s.. which gives me this list:

s|<s>||s (assuming @X = 2)

What I want is to be able to add in a <s> without affect the rest of the <s>'s...

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Turn off 'Use <> for expansion' in the Preferences|Script Parser section. I personally find this shortcut totally unnecessary and since your working with heavy MXP formatting it is actually getting in the way.