moving the cursor

[Ken Ray]

On 12/25/06 3:18 PM, "Stephen Barncard" <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>
wrote:

> Hi, gang,
> 
> hope everyone is having a great time w/ family and friends today.
> Also a good day to fly. I'm in Dallas/FW airport at the moment.
> 
> 
> how does one move the cursor character by character in a script? I'm
> using 2.7.4
> 
> I tried
> 
> get the loc of character x of field "x"

If you want to know where the insertion point is, you can check the
"selectedChunk"; if you want to know the x,y location of the current text
selection, check the "selectedLoc".

> but rev complains.
> 
> sending "arrowkey left" doesn't work either.

Looks like you're trying to move the insertion point one character to the
left? If so, you can do it this way:

  select after char (word 4 of the selectedChunk)-1 of fld "MyField"

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com