Hi Any help gratefully received.
I have a TMultiLineEdit displaying data from my DB Server.
I use #10 on the server to break up text into lines
I can see the lines in the TMultilineEdit but when i query the line count this is only showing 1.
Is there a way to refresh the count after adding lines dynamically or is the
TMultiLineEdit separating the lines visually but still treating it as one line.

Coullie wrote:

<<Hi Any help gratefully received.
I have a TMultiLineEdit displaying data from my DB Server.
I use #10 on the server to break up text into lines
I can see the lines in the TMultilineEdit but when i query the line count this is only showing 1.
Is there a way to refresh the count after adding lines dynamically or is the
TMultiLineEdit separating the lines visually but still treating it as one line.>>

TMultiLineEdit.Lines Property is a TStrings so you should be able to set
TStrings.LineSeparator property to something other than the default CRLF.

Steve

Stephen Barker wrote:
<TMultiLineEdit.Lines Property is a TStrings so you should be able to set
TStrings.LineSeparator property to something other than the default CRLF.>

Hi Steve thanks for the advise I tried a couple of LineSeparator's They all work and separate the text into lines.
however the line count does not reflect the number of lines being visually displayed in the MultiLineEdit.

The line count remains as 1

Thanks for the help. Ive implemented a work around using the copy and pos functions.

Coullie wrote:

<<The line count remains as 1>>

Interesting. Does the TMultiEdit.Lines.Count give you something different? There's a note in the help that the lines property can actually use LF only as separator.

Steve

Stephen Barker wrote:

Coullie wrote:

<<The line count remains as 1>>

Interesting. Does the TMultiEdit.Lines.Count give you something different? There's a note in the help that the lines property can actually use LF only as separator.

Steve
Hi steve

The MultiEdit.Lines.Count shows 1 even though there are multiple lines showing in the MultiEdit. i used LF. it works perfectly many lines with a count of 1

On 15/03/18 10:30, Coullie wrote:
> Hi Any help gratefully received.
> I have a TMultiLineEdit displaying data from my DB Server.
> I use #10 on the server to break up text into lines
> I can see the lines in the TMultilineEdit but when i query the line count this is only showing 1.
> Is there a way to refresh the count after adding lines dynamically or is the
> TMultiLineEdit separating the lines visually but still treating it as one line.
>

If you separate each line with CR and LF then it seems to work. e.g.

MultiLineEdit1.Lines.Text:='line 1'+#13+#10+'line 2';

Alternatively you can set the line separator to LF. e.g.

MultiLineEidt1.Lines.LineSeparator:=#10;
MultiLineEdit1.Lines.Text:='line 1'+#10+'line 2';

--
Rick

Coullie,

<< I have a TMultiLineEdit displaying data from my DB Server.
I use #10 on the server to break up text into lines >>

EWB expects a CRLF (#13+#10) by default, so you will need to change the LineSeparator for the TMultiLineEdit.Lines property if you want to use LF-only (#10).

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

<EWB expects a CRLF (#13+#10) by default, so you will need to change the LineSeparator for the TMultiLineEdit.Lines property if you want to use LF-only (#10).>
Hi Tim and all Thanks for the advice
#13+#10
#13#10
#10
LF
CRLF
all split my text into lines. my problem is the line count of the multiedit
Ive attached a png showing the result of the following code
This indicates to me that my string is correctly split into lines but the line count is still 1
var
i: Integer;
begin
for i := 0 to MultiLineEdit1.lines.count do
     MultiLineEdit1.lines[i] :=  MultiLineEdit1.lines[i] + ' ' + IntToStr(MultiLineEdit1.lines.count);

You mean:   MultiLineEdit1.lines.count - 1

for i := 0 to MultiLineEdit1.lines.count - 1 do
     MultiLineEdit1.lines[i] :=  MultiLineEdit1.lines[i] + ' ' + IntToStr(MultiLineEdit1.lines.count);

Walter

Walter Matte wrote:

<You mean:   MultiLineEdit1.lines.count - 1>

Yup sorry Walter. My question is still the same. Why no line count.