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Formatting the app view message with bullets (dots)
Message #1 Posted by Geoff Quickfall on 14 Oct 2013, 1:30 a.m.

When creating and then editing the app info editor I add bullets and indents using the format bullet command.

This creates a nice indented bullet list.

Once I leave the app I have created and then return, the bullets and all my formatting disappears.

How do I make the bullet dots and indents permanent?

      
Re: Formatting the app view message with bullets (dots)
Message #2 Posted by Tim Wessman on 14 Oct 2013, 8:37 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Geoff Quickfall

They should be. You are doing nothing wrong...

TW

Edited: 14 Oct 2013, 10:13 a.m.

            
Re: Formatting the app view message with bullets (dots)
Message #3 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 14 Oct 2013, 1:01 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Tim Wessman

Formatting is lost if you change apps and return. :-(

                  
Re: Formatting the app view message with bullets (dots)
Message #4 Posted by Geoff Quickfall on 14 Oct 2013, 4:28 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Marcus von Cube, Germany

Okay, so shifting apps removes the formatting, to bad.

but I can work around by creating indents and using non disappearing characters like the asterisk or hyphen.

Thanks Tim and Marcus.

                        
Re: more on bullets, dots and indents...
Message #5 Posted by Geoff Quickfall on 14 Oct 2013, 6:22 p.m.,
in response to message #4 by Geoff Quickfall

So here is how I get around the loss of the bullets when switching APPs

This is a suite of Aviation related programs dedicated to enhancing flight safety:

*Initialize:
  - invoke this program first to intitate degrees mode, clear memory.

*Input lat/lon:
  - this is the data input for start and finish waypoint
 co-ordinates for the Great Circle and Intermediate latitude
 programs.
  - prompts for start latitude and longitude and finish latitude
 and longitude.

*Great Circle:
  - calculates great circle distance in nautical miles and then
 displays initial true tack.

*Intermediate Latitude:
  - calculates the intermediate latitude given the start and
 finish waypoint co-ordinates input in the Input lat/lon routine
 above.  Prompts for the intermediate longitude.

*Temperature correction:
  - prompts for airport temperature, airport altitude, final
 approach fix altitude, minimum descent altitude and missed
 approach point altitude.
  - calculates the corrected barometric altitudes for all three
 fixes.

*Fuel in tank
  - prompts for before fuel total, after fuel total, tender uplift
 and specific gravity.
  - calculates actual difference of fuel, % difference of fuel
 above or below and pass or fail if % difference is greater then
 5%.

*QNH>31.00 inches:
  - prompts for actual QNH, MDA and VIS.
  - calculates the corrected MDA and VIS.

create indents with hyphens (+/-) and asterisk with the multiply sign and of course indents with spaces.

Geoff

Any chance of getting the bullets to be permanent on an update. Not a major bug but having re-inserted them a number of times thinking I was at fault it would be nice to have them!

;-D

Edited: 14 Oct 2013, 6:33 p.m.

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