List field line-up

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 27 02:05:01 EDT 2002


Hi Sarah,

You're right, the 'select' statement seems to have its
quirks. And I thought the hilitedLines was a get-only
property like clickText. Heh, lousy memory :-)

Best regards,

Jan Schenkel.

--- Sarah <sarahr at genesearch.com.au> wrote:
> How about this:
> 	put the hilitedLines of me into lineNums
> 	set the hilitedLines of fld 2 to lineNums
> 	set the hilitedLines of fld 3 to lineNums
> 
> I have found that select doesn't always work, but
> the hilitedLines will 
> work whether you have multiple lines selected or
> just one.
> 
> Sarah
> 
> 
> On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 04:51  AM, Jan Schenkel
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Nicholas,
> >
> > The following additional handler in the script of
> > field 3 (and _mutatis mutandis_ in the other two
> > fields) should do the trick:
> >
> > on mouseUp
> >   repeat for each item tLine in the hilitedLines
> of me
> >     select line tLine of fld 1
> >     select line tLine of fld 2
> >   end repeat
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > This incidentally also covers the situation where
> you
> > have set the multipleLines property of the flds to
> > true.
> >
> > Hope this helped,
> >
> > Jan Schenkel.
> >
> > "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more
> foolish
> > at the same time."  (De Rochefoucald)
> >
> > --- "Feasey, Nicholas"
> <NFeasey at utpress.utoronto.ca>
> > wrote:
> >> Yes, great, your script works nicely.  What about
> >> changing the hightlight on
> >> these additional fields as well?  I tried hilite
> but
> >> that seems to only work
> >> on buttons.
> >>
> >> N
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Klaus Major
> [mailto:klaus.major at metascape.org]
> >>
> >> Sent: 25-Jul-02 3:46 AM
> >> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> >> Subject: Re: List field line-up
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Nicholas.
> >>
> >>> I'm having a problem when I add fields from a
> file
> >> into a field.
> >>> I have, say, name, address and phone number. 
> The
> >> text file uses a TAB
> >>> as
> >>> the delimiter.
> >>> I load it into the list and everything loads
> just
> >> fine.
> >>> However, I can't get the fields to line up.  I'm
> >> not sure what the
> >>> issue is.
> >>> So, if I have the following fields with each
> item
> >> separated by TAB:
> >>> Joe Smith	123 Somestreet	416-999-9999
> >>> Nicholas Feasey	7 MyStreet	416-888-8888
> >>> ...when it gets into the list field it doesn't
> >> line up (in the example
> >>> above, for obvious reasons).
> >>
> >> These questions have already been answered
> >> sufficiently, i think.
> >>
> >>> Can I put each item into an individual field and
> >> have the three fields
> >>> (Name, Address, Phone Number) scroll in sync?
> >>
> >> This is also possible.
> >>
> >> In case you might need this in the future, here
> is
> >> how to do that.
> >>
> >> Example:
> >>
> >> You have 3 fields, nicely lined up.
> >> Field 1 and 2 do NOT have a scrollbar.
> >> Field 3 has a scrollbar and you just have to add
> >> this to the script of
> >> fld 3:
> >>
> >> on scrollbardrag
> >>    set the scroll of fld 1 to the scroll of me
> >>    set the scroll of fld 2 to the scroll of me
> >> end scrollbardrag
> >>
> >> Et voila, they scroll in sync and you are happy
> :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Klaus Major
> >> klaus.major at metascape.org
> >>
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