Touchy selection business

[Dave Cragg]

At 6:50 am +0100 4/12/03, MisterX wrote:
>hi everyone,
>
>Im making a long overdue tool that's just too fruity!
>But i came across a limitation...
>
>on mouseenter
>   put the selection into s1 -- bla bla bla
>   put the selectedchunk into s2 -- char x to y of field 1
>   put the selectedfield into s3 -- field 1
>   put the target into s4 -- the control receiving the mouseenter
>   put s1,s2,s3,s4 into lselection
>   put lselection
>end mouseenter
>
>if your selection is in the message, you dont know
>it is in the message box or your top stack for example.
>
>There is no "long selectanything"...
>
>The problem is that there is no way of knowing what stack
>(given palettes exist) contains the current selection.

How about

   put the long id of the selectedfield into s3

Does that give you what you need?

Dave