RTF not formating correctly

Question

Hi everyone
I imported an RTF document and inlcuded it in my splash screen. I have some lingo that updated the ducumented when the EXE is ran:
on beginsprite me
     member("Lawyer_bio").fileName = the moviePath & "Lawyer_bio.rtf"
     member("Lawyer_bio").rtf = member("Lawyer_bio").rtf
end
For some reason, the bullet points on my document are not formating correctly. It works fine with some RTF documents, but with other it does the following:
See how only the first bullet if formating correctly, why are the other ones not? Like I said, it doesn't happen with all the RTF documents.
thank you for your time,
Rafa.

Answer 1

Dear Rafa,
Please check to see that the sprite cast you were transferring into was not a accidentally a “field” cast member.  Text and field objects have different properties and methods.  Both sprites should be Text cast members. (I can visualize the problem you describe occurring if you were transferring into a Field Cast member from a Text cast member.)
Curious about how dynamic your application will be, Rafa. 
I did not experience the same problem when attempting to duplicate the scenario you described.
Are the formatting errors introduced when you import the file?  Or were they already there in the RTF document before you imported? 
The way I would troubleshoot is to ‘put char()’ in the message window, from just before to just after the bullet, comparing that with another Text cast member that has properly formatted text, and discover the anomaly.  It should then be easy to write a Lingo handler to detect anomalies and correct the formatting.
Here is the syntax for text cast members, illustrated.  By creating two text cast members (“A” eh) on the stage, then go to the message window and try:
set T1 = the member of sprite 1
set T2 = the member of sprite 2
et T1.text ="Hello World"
set T2.text = T1.text
put char 1 of T2.text
put the text of member 1 of castlib 1  -- or use the name of the cast member …
likewise:
put char 2 of (member 2 of castlib 1).text
TEXT cast members are much improved over earlier versions of Director.  You used to only be able to manipulate FIELD cast members with Lingo, and the limit to a field cast member was 32kb.
Adobe keeps on improving Director.  I wonder if Adobe will revive the Shockwave player, or build Director Shockwave into Acrobat.
I’ve been out of the game for a long time.  I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. 
But try my Pokey’s Puzzle Page www.devant.com/pokey