field: click on no char

[erik hansen]

thanks Ken,
we're not in HC anymore!

--- Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:
> Ok, Erik, ready for some real hackin'?
> 
> Step 1: Set the margins of your field so that
> the user can't click to
> the left or above any text (I set the margin to
> 2). (If you need the
> user to see a margin, make this field
> transparent and place it on top of
> another locked field that is a bit bigger to
> simulate a margin.)
> 
> Step 2: Set the lockText of the field to true.
> (You probably already did
> this.)
> 
> Step 3: We're going to take advantage of the
> formattedText() function,
> that inserts CRs where lines wrap in text
> fields by temporarily putting
> the formattedText into the field, seeing where
> the user clicked, and
> then resetting the text to what it was. We'll
> use the mouseCharChunk and
> mouseLine functions instead of the
> clickCharChunk and clickLine
> functions because they're the ones that work. 
> 
> Put the following script into your field:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put me into tText
>   put the formattedText of me into me
>   put the mouseCharChunk into tChunk
>   put the mouseLine into tLine
>   put tText into me
>   if tChunk <> "" then
>     put "The user clicked on " & tChunk
>   else
>     if tLine <> "" then
>       put "The user clicked after the end of "
> & tLine
>     else
>       put "The user clicked past the end of the
> text."
>     end if
>   end if
> end mouseUp
> 
> In my testing, I had a field whose text wrapped
> like this:
> 
>   Now is the time for all good men to 
>   come to the aid of their party.
> 
>   Here's another test of the second 
>   paragraph.
> 
> When I clicked between "good" and "men", I got:
> 
>   The user clicked on char 29 to 29 of field 1
> 
> When I cliked after the "." in "party."
> (between it at the right edge of
> the field), I got:
> 
>   The user clicked after the end of line 2 of
> field 1
> 
> When I clicked below the word "paragraph"
> (between the baseline of it
> and the bottom of the field), I got:
> 
>   The user clicked past the end of the text.
> 
> Hopefully you'll be able to tweak this for your
> own purposes.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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