lineoffset

Rick Rice rick-rice at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 6 19:48:45 EST 2009


Jim:
It works eh!
Had to make one slight change.
Had to add 1 to theLineNum
Thanks a bunch.
Rick

On Nov 6, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Jim Ault wrote:

> on mouseup
>    set the itemdel to "|"
>    get (cr & field "storage")
>    put  lineOffset( cr & the clicktext & "|", IT ) into theLineNum
>    if theLineNum > 0 then
>       put  item 2 to -1 of line theLineNum of IT into fld "display"
>
>       --note item 2 to -1  means item 2 to the last item in the line
>       --   the reason is in case the text of the line uses a "|" char
>       --   if that is true, then you would not display the entire line
>    else
>       put "Not found" into fld "display"
>    end if
> end mouseup




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