How to I get clickItem?

[Bill Vlahos]

Perfect. That is exactly what I wanted. And it is very simple too. 
Thanks to the others for their suggestions too.

Bill Vlahos

On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 01:33  PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

>> I have a field in which the itemDelimiter is numToChar(255) instead
>> of return. This allows me to have items with multiple paragraphs in
>> the same item.
>
> Items can always have paragraphs in them. Items don't end until either 
> the next item delimiter is encountered or the text runs out. If the 
> itemDelimiter isn't a return character, then many paragraphs can be 
> part of the same item.
>
>> How can I get the item number when a user clicks on the field? The 
>> clickLine correctly returns the line number but that doesn't tell me
>>  what item it is. What I want is a clickItem function which doesn't
>> exist (or at least I can't find it).
>
> Like this:
>
>   get the clickChunk
>   set the itemdelimiter to numToChar(255)
>   put the number of items in char 1 to (word 2 of it) of fld <fldName>
>
> Note that the clickChunk will return 0 if the user clicks in the empty 
> space after the text.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay