Hi, I'm new to this forum and to these tools. I hate to tell you how long it took me to figure this one out. I edited an MTX file in SceneBuilder and used hotspot text giving dimensions of an object with inch marks as part of the string. Saving the MTX file I kept getting errors, crashing the program, then the MTX file would not reopen (error=couldn't parse). The parser error referred to a line number, I checked it in a text editor and found that the double quotes (inch marks) were confused with the double quotes around the tags. Any way around this?

Inch marks, or " are one of the building blocks of the code. If you open an MTX file in notepad you'll see this. Adding " to anything will break the code in the wrong spot.

If you need to display special characters as hotspot text then use the ASCII character code. For instance, feet would be written as

& # 3 9 ;

and inches would be wrritten as

& # 3 4 ;

. You'll have to remove the space of course, I just added them to get the code to display as code on this forum.
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