Inserting unicodeText into a unicode string? #3

[Mike Bonner]

Yep, same difference, using word 4 works.  The main thing is to make sure
you catch actual selections and change behavior accordingly.  Should be a
piece of cake now that you grok selectedchunk.

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 08/29/2010 07:02 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
>> Set up a simple stack with a button and a field.  Put some text into the
>> field, and in the button put
>>
>> on mouseup
>> put the selectedchunk
>> end mouseup
>>
>> Make sure you have an active insertion point in the field and click the
>> button.
>>
>> It should put something like "char 22 to 21 of field 1" into the message
>> box.
>>
>> If you had a selection it would be char firstpositionnumber to char
>> secondpositionnumber.  Since its just an insertion point it will always be
>> of the relation -- word 2 is 1 more than word 4.
>>
>> As well, the dictionary contains this:
>>
>> *Summary:
>> Returns a chunk expression describing the location of the text selection
>> or
>> insertion point.
>>
>> Examples:
>> the selectedChunk
>> put the selectedChunk into storedChunk
>>
>>
>> Use the selectedChunk function to determine which text is selected.
>>
>> Value:
>> The selectedChunk function returns a chunk expression of the form
>>  char startChar to endChar of field fieldNumber
>> *
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Richmond<richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 08/29/2010 05:57 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> In this case, the selectedtext is a property that contains no
>>>> positional information.  You can't do math on selectedtext unless it
>>>> just so happens to contain a number.
>>>> So, to do what you want you would need to use selectedchunk instead,
>>>> check it to see a) if its only an insertion point (word 4 of the
>>>> selectedchunk - word 2 of the selectedchunk will = -1 if this is the
>>>> case) then if I recall correctly, word 2 of the selectedchunk is the
>>>> cursor position so checking char (word 2 of the selectedchunk - 1)
>>>> will give you the char reference that you're looking for.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'd be very interested to know exactly where you recall 'word 4',
>>> 'word 2' and so on from as I cannot find anything like this in reference
>>> to selectedChunk.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>
> Still fairly unclear to baboons like me . . .  :)  Mainly because the
> documentation doesn't explicitly mention words
> 4 - 1.
>
> I set up 4 flds and 'pumped' word 4 - 1 into the flds and got something
> like this:
>
> 14 to 15 char
>
> which shows fairly clearly that that is an insertion rather than a
> selection as the difference between
> words 4 and 2 is only 1: mind you, words 4 - 1 is a bit counter-intuitive.
>
> It is really only "a step away" from that to this:
>
> put word 4 of the selectedChunk into W4
> put char W4 of fld "fTX" into fld "fOUTPUT"
>
> giving one the char preceding the insertion point.
>
> Now, Ho - Ho - Ho; I shall have "a dark night of the soul" trying to do
> that lot for unicode . . . :)
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