Windows controls generally need a \r\n pair. (certainly the edit and rich text box controls do). StringSegment() looks like it could do what you're after (basically the last line of a multi-line string, right?). On 5/18/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HI Scripters. I wish to work out, from a bunch of text in a frame, how I > can string monipulate such that I can read only the bottom line of a stack, > which in this case will be the last call put on Hold, and which the keyboard > focus will thus operate on when HoldRetreave is pressed from within this > telephony interface application I'm scripting for? I know it must probly > have something to do with grabbing the whole MultiLine string of the text > in the frame, and somehow getting jaws to search from the right hand end of > the string, backwards along the bottom line, until it reached a > newLine/Carriage return character, then chopping everything from their to > the left, returning the remainder botttom line? but, I'm just a bit fogged > as to how to exactly code this type of funcionality? Could anyone steer me > on the right path here? and, is it a "\r" or "\n > that I'd be looking for here? and is it double backslash that you have to > enclose in quotes when looking for one of these? ive just forgotten somehow. > thanks so much for any pointers/info. > > geoff > > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > -- Soronel Haetir soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts