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  formatVal2String 
>Anyone have a way for me to get the quotes written around the values as
>they are sent to the text field?  Thanks
>
>Ian Crighton

Ian,

QUOTE does the trick.
I use the handler below when I build a string that later executes as valid 
lingo via the DO function.

on formatVal2String dVal
  -- save #symbol and #string syntax
  set dTxt=""
  set dIlk = ilk(dVal)
  case dIlk of
    #symbol:
      set dTxt = "#" & string(dVal)
    #string:
      set dTxt = QUOTE & string(dVal) & QUOTE
    otherwise
      set dTxt = string(dVal)
  end case
  return dtxt
end

Best regards
Daniel Plaenitz

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