Editbox

[Resike]

Every time i try to insert a "&" into an editbox with SetText i get a lua error. Is there any special way to do this?

Also is there any way to copy a string to the clipboard by an addon?

[Malsomnus]

Not sure about the ampersand, but I'm reasonably certain you can't copy into the clipboard.
You can do what DBM does: open a frame with an edit box that has what you want to copy, already highlighted, so the user can copy it easily.

[Resike]

Yep, thats what i wanna do in the first place, the copy to clipboard was the workaround for the isse. But seems like you can't do neither of them.

[Dridzt]

What's the specific error?

[Resike]

Originally Posted by Dridzt What's the specific error?

I'm not sure since i was trying to do it in xml, and it just breaks the code after the problem.

[Dridzt]

Check your Logs\FrameXML.log for errors in the xml portion of the game.

Secondly that changes the whole problem since '&' is not a reserved character in Lua but is in xml depending where in the file you tried to use it.

You needed a psychic to divine that btw with how your original post describes the problem :P

[Resike]

Originally Posted by Dridzt Check your Logs\FrameXML.log for errors in the xml portion of the game. Secondly that changes the whole problem since '&' is not a reserved character in Lua but is in xml depending where in the file you tried to use it. You needed a psychic to divine that btw with how your original post describes the problem :P

Yeah sorry i was before an update and i was in a hurry.
Thats weird i had no idea about xml has to do anythign with &.

Anyway i googled the solution now:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...ersands-in-xml

I tought it some blizzard character encoding issues, with special charaters.

Edit: None of them is worked i think somehow the xml parser doesn't recognizes that my "&" is actually in a function string and not the part of the xml stuff.

So i went with lua. However if anyone can figure it out how to do it in xml then cudos.

[Dridzt]

Well since you solved your immediate issue there's not much point.

We'd still need to see the original xml snippet to offer any suggestion for that part.

[Resike]

Originally Posted by Dridzt Well since you solved your immediate issue there's not much point. We'd still need to see the original xml snippet to offer any suggestion for that part.

Well it's a pretty basic stuff.

<EditBox name = "$parentDamnItsAnEditbox" inherits = "InputBoxTemplate" autoFocus = "false">
                <Size>
                    <AbsDimension x = "280" y = "20"/>
                </Size>
                <Anchors>
                    <Anchor point = "TOP">
                        <Offset x = "0" y = "-70"/>
                    </Anchor>
                </Anchors>
                <Scripts>
                    <OnLoad>
                        self:SetText("&") -- Code breaks here not load anything after.
                    </OnLoad>
                    <OnEscapePressed>
                        self:ClearFocus()
                    </OnEscapePressed>
                    <OnEnterPressed>
                        self:ClearFocus()
                    </OnEnterPressed>
                </Scripts>
            </EditBox>

[Dridzt]

Since it's a static character you could try the utf8 escape sequence.

self:SetText("\38")

[Vrul]

<UI xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/
..\FrameXML\UI.xsd">
<EditBox name = "$parentDamnItsAnEditbox" inherits = "InputBoxTemplate" autoFocus = "false">
    <Size>
        <AbsDimension x = "280" y = "20"/>
    </Size>
    <Anchors>
        <Anchor point = "TOP">
            <Offset x = "0" y = "-70"/>
        </Anchor>
    </Anchors>
    <Scripts>
        <OnLoad>
            self:SetScript("OnEscapePressed", self.ClearFocus)
            self:SetScript("OnEnterPressed", self.ClearFocus)
            self:SetText("&#x26;")
        </OnLoad>
    </Scripts>
</EditBox>
</UI>

[Vrul]

self:SetText("&") should work too if that would be easier to remember

[Resike]

Originally Posted by Vrul self:SetText("&") should work too if that would be easier to remember

Hmm that could work i already tried this but with no ";" in it.

[Resike]

Originally Posted by Dridzt Since it's a static character you could try the utf8 escape sequence. self:SetText("\38")

This works also.

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by Resike Hmm that could work i already tried this but with no ";" in it.

"&amp" is not a valid character entity. The closing semicolon is required.

Also, don't put spaces around equals signs when you're assigning values to attributes inside XML tags, eg. do this:

<Frame name="MyFrame">

and not this:

<Frame name = "MyFrame">

WoW's XML parser may be forgiving of extra spaces, but not all XML parsers are, so it's better to form good habits rather than bad ones.

[Resike]

Originally Posted by Phanx "&amp" is not a valid character entity. The closing semicolon is required. Also, don't put spaces around equals signs when you're assigning values to attributes inside XML tags, eg. do this: <Frame name="MyFrame"> and not this: <Frame name = "MyFrame"> WoW's XML parser may be forgiving of extra spaces, but not all XML parsers are, so it's better to form good habits rather than bad ones.

Never run into any problem about this but i guess you're right.