Help please

[john Oneplus]

Hello

I've been pulling my hair out!

How can I set the text to display but in different lines? (New line but gets the data from read file and inserts the data singulary on a new line? 

//Called when application is started.

function OnStart()

{

app.GetPrivateFolder( "","external" ) 

 //Create a layout with objects vertically centered.

 lay = app.CreateLayout( "Linear", "VCenter,FillXY" )

    app.WriteFile( "taskMania.txt", "\n", "Append" );

    var txt = app.ReadFile("taskMania.txt");

   // var length = txt.split("\n").length;

   var length = txt.split("\n");

   

  // app.ShowPopup("myFile contains " + length + " lines");

alert(txt)

getInput1 = prompt("Enter task");

  app.WriteFile( "taskMania.txt", getInput1,"Append" );

 app.ReadFile("taskMania.txt");

alert(getInput1)

 //Create a text label and add it to layout.

var txt2 = app.CreateText(txt,"MultiLine","Html")  //WANT TO INSERT INPUT DATA INTO NEW A NEW LINE BUT NOT WORKING

 txt2.SetTextSize( 10 )

 lay.AddChild( txt2 )

// txt2 = txt.replace(/\n/g,"")

 txt2.SetText( txt.split("\n" ));

  

 //Add layout to app. 

 app.AddLayout( lay )

}

[Steve Garman]

You appear to be mixing html and plain text

newline characters do not display in html

Try removing the "Html" option from app.CreateText to see what is happening

[Steve Garman]

If your text is html, you may need to add "<br>" instead of "\n" 

[john Oneplus]

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

I will try this tonight and let you know how I get on.

Kind Regards 

[john Oneplus]

Hi,

The list is still showing on 1 line.

//Called when application is started.

function OnStart()

{

app.GetPrivateFolder( "","external" ) 

 //Create a layout with objects vertically centered.

 lay = app.CreateLayout( "Linear", "VCenter,FillXY" )

    app.WriteFile( "taskMania.txt", "\n", "Append" );

    var txt = app.ReadFile("taskMania.txt");

   // var length = txt.split("\n").length;

   var length = txt.split("\n");

   

    app.ShowPopup("myFile contains " + length + " lines");

alert(txt)

getInput1 = prompt("Enter task\n");

  app.WriteFile( "taskMania.txt", getInput1,"Append" );

 app.ReadFile("taskMania.txt");

alert(getInput1)

 //Create a text label and add it to layout.

 txt = app.CreateText(txt,"MultiLine")

 txt.SetTextSize( 10 )

 lay.AddChild( txt )

 //Add layout to app. 

 app.AddLayout( lay )

}

[Alan Hendry]

HI,

Typing this in here, so there may be typos etc

The code seems to append \n to taskmania.txt, read it into variable txt, (split and display line count - what does it show?)

prompt into getinput, append that to the file, I think it should next read into variable txt

txt = app.ReadFile("taskMania.txt");

You don't have <br> for new lines, so "Html" should be omitted,  

and width/height can't be omitted (null or -1 to let contents set size)

var txt2 = app.CreateText(txt,-1,-1,"MultiLine")

(If it was html the parameter would be one string "MultiLine,Html")

Also PrivateFolder isn't used, but it should be something like this

gpf = app.GetPrivateFolder( "","external" ) 

 

Regards, ah

[john Oneplus]

Hello

Thank you so much everyone, this has resolved the issue.

Thank you, I'm learning all of this and I'm not very quick at it:-)

This is now resolved.

I probably will require a lot more help in time, I do try and look online first though hehe.