how to set the textStyle of word 1 of the selection?

[Andre.Bisseret]

Bonjour Peter,

Ouaah! very clever :-)))
No problem with tabs, spaces, cr etc.

adopted :-)

Thanks a lot

Best regards from Grenoble

André

Le 15 mars 10 à 22:52, Peter Brigham MD a écrit :

> Or this way:
>
> on mouseup
>   put the selectedchunk into selCh
>   if the selectedtext = empty then exit mouseup
>   put the long id of the selectedfield into fldRef
>   put value(fldRef) into fldText
>   put word 2 of selCh into startChar
>   put the number of words of char 1 to startChar \
>          of fldText into wordNbr
>   set the textstyle of word wordNbr of \
>          fldRef to "link"
> end mouseup
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Andre.Bisseret wrote:
>
>>
>> Le 15 mars 10 à 14:26, Klaus on-rev a écrit :
>>
>>> Bonjour Andre,
>>>
>>>> Thank you Richmond for your prompt answer.
>>>> But with "the first word" instead of "word 1" I get the same  
>>>> errors. Does not work
>>>> Any other idea?
>>>
>>> "the selection" returns the selected text and NOT a chunk  
>>> describing the selection!
>>>
>>> So you may need to check "the selectedchunk" or something to get  
>>> to know what to
>>> format the way you want to.
>>>
>> Guten tag Klaus,
>>
>> Ah! OK !
>> I wrote that :
>> ---------------------
>> on mouseUp
>>  local firstCharNum,firstWordLength,lastChar,lastCharNum,
>>  ----------
>>  put the number  of chars of word 1 of the selection into  
>> firstWordLength
>>  put word 2 of the selectedChunk into firstCharNum
>>  put firstCharNum + firstWordLength - 1 into lastCharNum
>>  set the textStyle of char firstCharNum to lastCharNum of fld 1 to  
>> "link"
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> not really straightforward ;-)) but that works!
>>
>> Danke sehr!
>>
>> André
>>
>>
>>
>>
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