Trouble deleting a line of text

[Bill Vlahos]

Thanks Sarah.

Bill

On Aug 24, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
>> I have a table field (but in testing any field behaves this way)  
>> that I want
>> to delete a line of text when the user right clicks on it. The  
>> following
>> script deletes the line of text as expected but then throws an error.
>>
>> 1. Create a field and type several lines of text in it.
>> 2. Lock the text of the field (so it can respond to mouseUp)
>> 3. Paste the following code into the field
>> 4. Click on a line of text
>>
>> on mouseUp
>> select the clickLine
>> answer "Really delete" & return & the clickLine && "?" with "No" or  
>> "Yes"
>> if it is "Yes" then
>>   delete the clickLine
>> end if
>> end mouseUp
>>
>
> The problem is that "the clickLine" is not preserved and becomes empty
> while the answer dialog is open (or when it closes).
> Try this instead. It stores "the clickLine" first, then uses the
> stored value instead of expecting "the clickLine" to remain the same:
>
> on mouseUp
>    put the clickline into tClick
>    select tClick
>    answer "Really delete" & return & tClick && "?" with "No" or "Yes"
>    if it is "Yes" then
>        delete tClick
>    end if
> end mouseUp
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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