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Within Opus 4.5 script, I would like to embed formatting characters such as tab and line feed within a single string variable.

I've tried a variety of the usual suspects such as chr(nn) to include ASCII codes but no luck as yet. Can it be done?

TIA

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.

You can insert a tab using the escape string \t or a line return using \n.

The attached publication demonstrates this in action.

Kind regards,

Doh! Belatedly, thank you - blindingly obvious.

However, ideally I'd still like to be able to use certain other characters, for example ascii 7 (BEL) without the need for playing a sound file.

Thanks, Linnet

That's a real blast from the past! I'm afraid that's never going to work.

If you want sounds without including the sound resources just use the Play System Sound action or script function - these use the standard Windows sound events and play whatever sounds the user has associated with them.

This is particularly useful for error and warning messages since it will then play the sound the user associates with such messages, rather than whatever the publication designer has chosen.

Hi Duncan

This was a 'for example' (since ascii 7 is near the start of the list...) The app in question is incidentally not multimedia-oriented and may well be used on desktop machines without speakers.

However, the guts of the question - and I apologise if it didn't have enough emphasis - was whether or not script will support a reference to characters by ascii (dec/hex) value rather than standard escape combinations. Suspect not however!

Linnet

Hi Linnet

The answer is actually yes (sort of)

You can represent anything on the ascii chart with the
undocumented script command String.fromCharCode()

var a = "002"
var STX = String.fromCharCode(a)

HTH

Chris