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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Tabs Within Fields
Keywords: Not shown, but stored -- where?
Message-ID: <30318@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 23:03:45 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <850@mtxinu.UUCP> alan@mtxinu.COM (Alan Tobey) writes:
>I know that tabs aren't visually represented within Hypercard fields -- but
>
Hypercard somehow maintains a record of where tab characters reside.

Actually HyperCard DELETES all characters less than ASCII 32 (except for
a carriage return) when closing a field.  This is probably not the right
thing to do, but that what it does.  This means that importing text into
a field maintains the tab (which is not displayed), but as soon as you
click in the text, the tab is removed.  Usually a tab appears just like
a space, but after removing it the text gets squashed together.  This
will be fixed in HC 2.0.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer