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[Blazingwolf]

Sorry I missed typed those lines they should have been 12 by 12. Anyway I removed those lines as I didn't need them. I have started retyping the region and so far the buttons work the way they are suppossed to without the extra endif. Hopefully it will stay that way.

[joelw135]

I rewrote the code and removed the endif, and it seems to be working. That is sort of a de-lima, since we now know code even when typed correctly mite not work. I know now that spacing also has something to do with the code also.

[Scotty]

Sorry I missed typed those lines they should have been 12 by 12. Anyway I removed those lines as I didn't need them. I have started retyping the region and so far the buttons work the way they are suppossed to without the extra endif. Hopefully it will stay that way.

I rewrote the code and removed the endif, and it seems to be working.

Glad it's working. I have no good explanation for why you needed the "extra" endif, and can only assume that there's some strange character in there somewhere (I even cut & pasted into Word, and turned on "show all characters" - but didn't see anything untoward).

All the best....................Scotty

[Lordtwisted]

Dam this turned into a big thread for a not so hard button. lmao. Remember you have to be careful when copying code.



Lordtwisted

[joelw135]

There seems to be a problem when you cut and paste, or have blank spaces in certain code. The code can look identical but yet won't work.

[Lordtwisted]

joelw135,

     Oh i know, i found that out the hard way, in the begining of todayplus.



Lordtwisted

[joelw135]

This is like erector set, take the pieces or modules and create almost anything you want in reason. But this little quirk makes it a bit harder.

[fishboy]

A TAB character after a command can cause problems as well.  This might happen if you delete enough text at the end of a command that causes a following blank line (which may have an imbedded TAB) to move up.  

On a PC you can using something like Word and force it to display formatting characters.  If editing on the PDA, use the keyboard's right arrow key to move to the end of the line.  If at the end of the command, pressing the arrow key causes the cursor to jump to the next line, then you should be OK, otherwise you may have additional whitespace characters (i.e. spaces, Tabs, etc.) which may need to be deleted.

[joelw135]

I normally use notepad to edit, much easier and faster loading than word.

[fishboy]

I use notepad as well (but also do alot of editing on my PDA), but Word is useful for periodically checking for formatting that might be causing problems.

[Scotty]

I use notepad as well (but also do alot of editing on my PDA), but Word is useful for periodically checking for formatting that might be causing problems.

Same here. As noted above, I copied joelw135's text into Word precisely for that reason - to look for unexpected characters, as an explanation of why he & BW needed an extra endif - but didn't see anything.

Good to know that others (see LT post above) also found that copy / paste sometimes doesn't work. I wasted probably three hours, tearing my hair out, looking at 4 simple lines of code that I had copied / pasted, but didn't work. Then I typed them, and voila......

All the best..........................Scotty

[swm1605]

Hi- I have also experienced some problems with what appear to be spurious characters in a skin file. Now, as a matter of course, I always edit any skin file I work with using TextPad 4. Saving a file in this (PC based) editor strips all white space from the file. In addition I convert all tabs to just two spaces so that indentation is still visible but the file can easily be viewed with Pocket Word.

Closer to the topic, this has been a very valuable thread. I have learned a lot just following the discussion. Thank you to all participants!:)

Regards

swm1605