hi Olaf,
message box does not seem to be a proper text editing tool, even with a quoting feature (which is needed anyway...). There are other options, like editing text in a window (see xeq's edit/editok methods) or reading a text file created in an external editor.
Krzysztof
Olaf Matthes wrote: ...
Isn't there any other way to get plain text into my external? The above would just work for numbers (how to tell the difference between int and float?) and text. What's about special characters? ...how does [print]