Programming multi line selections

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Thu Jul 7 14:48:04 EDT 2005


>>Also, how do I deselect all lines before I start (select empty doesn;t
>>seem to achieve this).
>>
>Hi Rob,
>
>When you select a line in a repeat loop, only the last found line 
>will appear selected :-)
>Try to parse the lines by number and set the hilitedLines at the end:
>
>   put 0 into LineNo
>   repeat for each line peptide in card field "audit"
>   add 1 to LineNo
>   if char -1 of peptide = "K" then put LineNo & comma after tHilitedLines
>  end repeat
>  delete char -1 of tHilitedLines
>  set the hilitedLines of field "audit" to tHilitedLines
>

The script from Eric will automatically unselect previous selection 
but in case you want to clear all yourself

   set the hilitedLines of fld "audit" to empty

Robert



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