silly text editing question

[Bob Sneidar]

I can see the problem this may present here. What if I wanted to know  
which word of the selected line was selected? The selectedchunk only  
returns the character position. The selected line returns the line(s)  
selected. I would have to go through some convoluted math to figure  
out how many characters or words were in the lines prior to my  
selection, then subtract that from whatever the selectedChunk returns  
to get where I want to go.

What would be better is if selectedChunk returned a detailed result like

word 2 to 3 of line 15 of field "myField"

or if we could pass an arguement to selectedChunk for the kind of  
object we were looking for.

All speculation tho.

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> There is also the selectedLine which will return the line your cursor
> is in.
>
> Bob Sneidar
> IT Manager
> Logos Management
> Calvary Chapel CM
>
> On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
>> The SelectedChunk. I found it by looking in the dictionary under "the
>> selection". It's one of the things listed under "See Also:".
>>
>> Bob Sneidar
>> IT Manager
>> Logos Management
>> Calvary Chapel CM
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
>>
>>> How do you find out where the current "insertion point" in an
>>> editable field is?
>>>
>>> I mean, if you have:
>>>
>>> This is line 1
>>> This is line 2
>>> This is line 3
>>>
>>> in an editable field, if the user has placed the caret after the 'n'
>>> in line 2 and then hit return for example, how do you know where in
>>> the field you are? (either in terms of chars, or char n of line n,  
>>> or
>>> whatever).
>>>
>>> This is probably really simple, but I can't for the life of me  
>>> figure
>>> it out!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Mark
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