how to get the textfont of the clickchunk in an unlocked field ?

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Christian,

When a field is not locked, the mouseDown message is only sent when  
you click with button 3 but the engine always keeps the value of the  
clickchunk . So, as the only messages that are always sent to a not  
locked field are mouseDoubleDown and mouseMove, you could try a  
combination like the following:

on mousemove
   local tFont
   -----
   try -- since the clickChunk may be empty :-)
     put the effective textfont of the clickChunk into tFont
   end try
   put tFont -- into fld "UsedFont"
end mousemove

Hope this helps.

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.

Le 31 août 05 à 16:52, Langers Christian a écrit :

> Well I wanted to be able to get the font name to be displayed when  
> the user clicks (with MouseButtonNumber 1 !!!)  a word/textchunk in  
> a textfield...
>
> I tried this handler in the textfield :
>
> on mouseUp
>     put the effective textfont of the clickChunk
> end mouseUp
>
> but mouseUp/down meassages are not sent to the textfield....
>
>
> How to do it then  ?
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> Christian

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