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In the script snippet below, I am setting up toggles (using "not") to view or not certain things in Textmaker. All of the toggles work fine, except for View.FieldShading. I can toggle FieldShading using if/else. But I should not need an if statement. Any thoughts?

The code snippet follows:

dim tm as object
set tm = CreateObject("TextMaker.Application")

' Why won't this toggle work like the rest of the toggles below? <<<<<
'tm.ActiveWindow.View.FieldShading = not tm.ActiveWindow.View.FieldShading

' Use this workaround since the toggle line does not work
if tm.ActiveWindow.View.FieldShading = 0 then
tm.ActiveWindow.View.FieldShading = 1
else
tm.ActiveWindow.View.FieldShading = 0
end if

tm.ActiveWindow.View.HighlightComments = not tm.ActiveWindow.View.HighlightComments
tm.ActiveWindow.View.ShowBookmarks = not tm.ActiveWindow.View.ShowBookmarks
tm.ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = not tm.ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText

"Not 0" is -1 in BASIC, but the property wants either 0 or 1.

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Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH

Thank you for the reply. I had actually done the other three first which were boolean types. I added FieldShading as a later thought. I put it first in the snippet submitted for clarity. I assumed a boolean type for FieldShading like the others. But it is a long type. Thank you again for pointing out the obvious (if I had checked the help file again) to me.