A simple DCSAY queston

[BruceN]

I have a customer whose name is Heads & Tails (don't ask my why - they sell UF, FSU, and Bucs gear, here in Tampa). Anyway, sometimes when their name is the value of a variable in a dcsay it shows as Heads_Tails. on a dcget it displays properly.

I assume xbase is translating the & as something else. How do I have it format right?

again thanks.

[rdonnay]

The standard Windows convention is to use two & characters.

Your code should look like this:

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cName := Strtran(cName,'&','&&')

@ x,y DCSAY cName

[BruceN]

Curious... Attached is a sceen shot. In a browse the '&' shows properly, but not in a dcsay. Also, if I change the dcsay to a dcget, it displays properly. hmmm

[bwolfsohn]

Bruce,

I may be oversimplifying it, but i believe this only applies to dcsays, not dcgets, or browse items.. if the word seek had an & in it at the top of the browse, i suspect it too would be affected.

[rdonnay]

DCSAY objects are inherited from the XbpStatic class. These are basically the same as Labels in Windows. The & character follows this rule for menus and labels because the & character is used to underline the "hot key" of a label or menu item because it is a user prompt.

DCGETs and DCBROWSEs are displaying "data" not "prompts", therefore a different rule applies.

[BruceN]

I knew there had to be a reason for it... thanks.