I have a file being loaded into fd.ChosenName and wondering if there is a quick solution such as an opposite to stringbuilder to truncate a file name (extension) for display purposes. So if the value of fd.ChosenName is picture1.jpg I could actually display the text picture1 in a panel etc.
str.SubString2(0, str.LastIndexOf("."))
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SubString2 takes 2 parameters, beginIndex and endIndex
Reference: http://www.basic4ppc.com/android/help/core.html#string
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In an empty table cell with the cursor inside, I am inserting multiple paragraphs of text (each with different styles) using insertFileFromBase64.
When no newline is present at the bottom of the Base64 DOCX file, the last paragraph will not receive the style assigned to it within the Base64 DOCX file.
However, when a newline is present within the Base64 DOCX file, I cannot get rid of it. Selecting the last paragraph within the cell and performing a delete does not return an error, but the newline remains present.
I guess this is related to the special status of the "cell marker" within Word, but I cannot find a way around this problem.
Does anyone know a solution?
Found workaround myself: when you FIRST set the style of the current paragraph to the style of the very last paragraph that is contained in the Base64 DOCX file, then the problem can be avoided. (Of course, this supposes that you know upfront the style of that very last paragraph -- which is not necessarily always the case.)
Is there a way to store subscript and superscript values in the Progress database, for example, chemical symbols and formulas, such as C2H5OH, and is it possible to display them ?
I tried copying from Word and pasting into fill in string fields but it doesn't format correctly, it doesn't recognize subscripted values and it is displayed as C2H5OH.
After some testing I've come this far:
1) You need to start your session with startup parameter -cpinternal utf-8 ie
prowin32.exe -cpinternal utf8
Depending on your need you might also need to set -cpstream utf-8 and possibly -cpcoll basic (or something else that matches your needs).
When I did this I had some strange crashes - but that might be because I edited a file saved in another codepage?
2) You need to get the data into your system (perhaps you already have it?).
I used Word and information found here and further explained here. The subscript font setting are just font settings (not unicode) so don't let that fool you (copy-pasting from your question is exactly the same). Basically you need to write the hexadecimal value of the subscript 2 (2082) in Word and then press Alt + X.
Assuming you want to write the actual data in a Progress based GUI I haven't been successful so far. Perhaps you could look at changing registry values as described in the links and continue along that path. I don't want to do that for just basic testing...
3) You will need a font with decent support for these characters. Some fonts don't support them at all!
Segoe UI:
Default system font (possibly) MS Sans Serif:
Arial:
5) Database? I'm unsure if you will need to use CLOB-fields to store this in your database or not. Most likely you shouldn't.
Hope this is enough to at least get you started!
My Word interop application needs to get content out of a cell of a table in a word document. The problem is, that the formatting for some items seems broken. For example the last item of a list does not have the list style applyied. Headings are only normal text etc.
The same happens if you create a table, create a list in the table and try to copy / paste the list to somewhere else.
Has anyone else had this problem and maybe found a solution? Is there any way to trick word into giving the correct formatting?
Thanks in advance
Example code
Range range = cell.range;
range.MoveEnd(WdUnits.wdCharacter, -1);
...
range.FormattedText.copy()
The range includes the end-of-cell marker which should not be exported. I just noticed, when not altering the range, list are correctly formatted but the whole cell is exported as a table, which is bad because i want to import the content into another document (where this would nest tables infinitly)
Word2010 v14.06.6112.5000
I need to edit format for JFormatedTextField in a Java program. NetBeans are "helping" me with something called Format editor. But, I have no clue how the pattern works.
For #,##0.### , it returns 1,234.567, as pictured above. However, I want to change the thousands delimiter to space and decimal separator to comma.
I would guess # ##0,### is the right format, but no, that returns "Malformed pattern # ##0,###".
How can I change the thousand separator to space and decimal to comma? Is that even possible, using Format editor?
It sounds like you're looking for the reference for the java.text.NumberFormat class.
The DecimalFormatSymbols.getGroupingSeparator method looks like it is probably relevant to what you're doing. You will have to choose an appropriate Locale to get the formatting characters you want.
You may need to do something like:
NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getInstance(Locale.FRENCH);
with an appropriate parameter to getInstance() for your country and language.
I have a function within a custom CRM web application (old VB.Net circa 2003) that takes a set of fields from a database and merges them with palceholders in a set of RTF based template documents. These generate merged letters and documentation. The code essentially loops through each line of the RTF template file and replaces any instances of the placeholder values with text from a database record. The issue I'm having is that users have pasted a certain type of apostrophe into the web app (and therefore into the database) that is not rendering correctly in the resulting RTF file. It is rendering like this - ’.
I need a way to spot this invalid apostrophe in the code and replace it with a valid one. Unfortunately when I paste the invalid apostrophe into the Visual Studio editor it gets converted into the correct one. So I need another way to express this invalid apostrophe's value. Unfortunately I do not know a great deal about unicode and other encodings so I'm calling out for help with this.
Any ideas?
If you really just want to figure out what the character is you might want to try and paste it into a text editor like ultraedit. It has a hex mode that you can flip to to see the actual underlying bytes.
In order to do the replace once you've figured out the character you'd do something like this in Vb,
text.Replace(ChrW(2001), "'")
Note that you might not be able to figure it out easily using the text editor because it might also get mangled by paste from the clipboard. You might want to either print some debug of the ascii values from code. You can use the AscW function to do that.
I can't help but think that it may actually simply be a case of specifying the correct encoding to use when you write out the stream though. Assuming you're using a StreamWriter you can specify it on the constructor. I'm guessing you actually want ASCII given your requirement.
oWriter = New System.IO.StreamWriter(path, False, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
It looks like you probably want to encode characters out of the 8 bit range (>255).
You can do that using \uNNNN according to the wikipedia article.