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

[Andre.Bisseret]

Le 16 mars 10 à 18:13, Peter Brigham MD a écrit :

> Not sure if this got through the first time, if so, sorry for any  
> duplication...

Yes I received it and replied

>
>
> On a different note, I'm confused about the behavior of full control  
> references, eg, fldRef in the above example, which contains a long  
> id of a field. The last line of the mouseup handler works, because  
> the engine evaluates the variable fldRef before executing the  
> command, but if instead of "set the textstyle of word wordNbr of  
> fldRef" you do this:
>  put word wordNbr of fldRef
> you get the corresponding word of "field id 3521 of card id 1009 of  
> stack..." -- ie, the unevaluated string contained in the variable  
> fldRef -- and not the word in the field referred to.

I tried replacing " set the textstyle of word wordNbr of fldRef to  
"link"
with

put word wordNbr of fldRef

Curiously I got nothing in the message box!?

André

>
> So under what circumstances does Rev evaluate a full control  
> reference? It's clearly not in all contexts.
>