That did it! Thanks!!!!!!
>>The problem is that I do not know what they all may be. There are many of them used in FPD26 for line drawing, etc and special characters and they are all entered as =CHR(whatever#)...
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>
>Then the form hack should work just fine
after backing it up somewhere for good measure, e.g.
>[evaluated expressions in captions are stored like this e.g. caption=" =Chr(195)" is stored
Caption = (CHR(195))
>here's an updated version to handle both
=CHR(x)
and
="Some string"
>
>
#Define CR Chr(13)
>** set those with CHR(x) in label expression to empty caption
>Update theForm.scx ;
> set Properties=StrTran(properties, ;
> "Caption = ("+StrExtract(properties, "Caption = (",CR), ;
> [Caption = ""]) ;
> where baseclass="label" ;
> and "CHR(" $ Upper(StrExtract(properties, "Caption = (",CR))
>
>** set those with ="Some string" to just "Some string"
>Update theForm.scx ;
> set Properties=StrTran(properties, ;
> "Caption = ("+StrExtract(properties, "Caption = (",")"+CR)+")"+CR, ;
> [Caption = ]+StrExtract(properties, "Caption = (",")"+CR)+CR) ;
> where baseclass="label" ;
> and "Caption = (" $ properties
>
>USE in theForm
>Modify Form theForm nowait
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