Problem with 2 consecutive Insertpoints

Hello,

As I posted it here yesterday, I have the same kind of problem. After more investigations, it seems that the file does not save correctly (using saveToFile()).

When I open my RTF file with notepad, at the end of the file instead of having what I guess should be :

{\field{\*\fldinst{MERGEFIELD Field0 }}<\plain\f0\fs22\cf0 Text0}\plain\f0\fs22\cf0 {\field{\*\fldinst{MERGEFIELD Field1 }}<\plain\f0\fs22\cf0 Text1}}}

I have :

{\field{\*\fldinst{MERGEFIELD Field0 }}<\plain\f0\fs22\cf0 Text0<\plain\f0\fs22\cf0 Text1}}}

The beginning is similar but there is a missing part at the end.

I've checked all properties of the TWPRichText component but none seems to impact on the problem.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Jeffres

PS : Here is a copy of my message on newswhat forum, sorry for the length of my post.

I am facing a problem with WPTools 4.x (not sure about the exact version,
could anyone tell me how to get it ?) in C++ Builder 5. I've found no
other mention of this kind of issue over the Internet, so I hope someone
could help me here.

What I do is quite simple.

I have a form with a TWPRichText and 3 buttons : "Insert", "Merge" and "Load".

The "Insert" button adds a mail-merge field with the text "Texti" and the
field name "Fieldi" (in which i is a number incremented each time one
click the button).

The "Merge" button first saves the TWPRichText content in a file and then
merges the text.

The "Load" button simply loads again the file.

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Here are two examples, the first that works right, and the second that
demonstrates the problem :

1) I click on "Insert" 3 times, pressing the enter key between each click
to go on a new line, as to obtain the following text :

<Text0   <Text1   <Text2

2) Then I click the "Merge" button, what results in :

<Field0   <Field1   <Field2

3) Then I click the "Load" button which gives me again :

<Text0   <Text1   <Text2

And so on, that works. But let's see the other case :

1) I use the "Insert" button and the Enter key to obtain the following text :

<Text0<Text1   <Text2

2) Then here is what I obtain when merging, what seems correct :

<Field0<Field1   <Field2

3) But then when I reload the file, I again have the text as in 1), except
that the '<' character before "Field1" isn't red (as all insert points
generally are) but black.
And if i merge again, I get :

<Field0   <Field2

"<Field1" has disappeared !!!

And that happens as soon as 2 mail-merge fields are put side by side, what
means that if I had put a space or any other character between "<Text0"
and "<Text1", then everything would have gone all right.

Has anyone met this problem or have a solution ? Is it a bug from WPTools ?

Thanks for your answers.

Jeffres

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Here is the code executed when I click the "Insert" button :

static int i;   WPRichText1->InputField(   '<',                              PERString( "Text" ) + IntToStr( i ),                              PERString( "Field" ) + IntToStr( i ) );   i++;

Here is the code executed when I click the "Merge" button :

WPRichText1->InsertPointAttr->Hidden = false;   WPRichText1->SaveToFile( "test_edition.rtf" );   WPRichText1->MergeText();

Here is the code executed when I click the "Load" button :

WPRichText1->LoadFromFileWithClear("test_edition.rtf");

And here is the MailMergeGetText function of my TWPRichText :

void __fastcall TfrmDossierDevis::WPRichText1MailMergeGetText(
         TObject *Sender, const AnsiString inspname,
         TWPMMInsertTextContents *Contents)
   {
      Contents->StringValue = inspname;
   }

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

I just tried to use InputEditField but it doesn't seem to work better (it is even worse) : after a merge the end tag isn't recognized anymore and is considered as a normal character.

Perhaps there is something I do wrong.

I'm having the same problem with v4.25. I use InputEditField to create the edit fields, then when I save the file and reload it, it is messed up. I didn't have this problem with v4.

As an example, if I create the following as a document:

<<Edit1>> <<Edit2>>  <<Edit3>>  <<Edit4>>

<<Edit5>>
<<Edit6>>

Then if I save the document and open it again, I see:

<<Edit1>> <<Edit2>> <<Edit3>> <<Edit4>>

<<Edit5
<<Edit6

Then of course, merging will not work.
I plan to upgrade to V5, but it is going to take some time because of the large amount of development that has been done with v4, so in the meantime, is there a fix for this? I don't think I'm doing anything wrong, or am I?

Thanks!

Sorry, I made a typo on the example above, the end markers are actually missing from Edit4, (not just there, but black.) The RTF code in the file reflects this also, so it appears to be a problem when saving.

Also, it appears after further examination that after saving the document, the end markers are missing from every edit field that is the last in each line. For every other in the line, the end markers are now black instead of red & will not merge correctly.

This happens whether I use SaveToFile(), or click the Save Icon in the toolbar.

Thanks.

I am experiencing the exact same problem. Is there a fix to this, a newer version for 4 than 4.25? I have had to roll back to the previous version. Like others, the plan is to move to 5, but there is a large amount of code that has to be handled. Any help would be appreciated.

Same problem as outlined above, and like the previous poster, moving to 5 is not an immediate option. Nor is moving away from mergefields.

Any work-arounds or changes to the source that we can make to avoid this problem?