Single quotes in uiListBox and combo

[m.tarenskeen]

Hi,

My Korg DS-8 and 707 panels show 100 patchnames from a received or loaded bank in a uiListBox. But problems arise when a patchname contains single quote literals.
for a example a patchname like “Mc’Donalds”

For now, I created a workaround that simply replaces the “‘” with a “.” before displaying them.

But is there a better way to show single quotes in uiListBox and combo items?

[Possemo]

If I remember well there are a few other characters that don’t work in ListBoxes. I use the same workarounds – AFAIK there is no other way.

[m.tarenskeen]

OK. Is it documented somnewhere which characters are or aren’t allowed? Then I can make my code work also in unforeseen situations.

[Possemo]

I don’t think so. I looked into one of my panels who does load patch names into a listbox. It replaces the following characters with spaces:

” – ASCII 34
‘ – ASCII 39
, – ASCII 44

[dnaldoog]

Did you try escaping with a \ in front of the ‘ ?

[m.tarenskeen]

dnaldoog wrote:

Did you try escaping with a \ in front of the ‘ ?

Yes I did. Doesn’t work.

[dnaldoog]

I’m not sure about uiListBox, but I have it working in a uiCombo http://ctrlr.org/roland-jd990-super-editor/

A function on line 229 of myFunctions file loads patch names from an array in myArrays file into the uicombo Box on the left in the gui- on line 435 there is an example of an escaped ‘ “[I-56] JD\’s Sentiment”,

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