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

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Mar 16 16:53:21 EDT 2010


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Andre.Bisseret wrote:
> 
>> Then, I am looking for a solution. I will try to control the selection 
>> made by the user and to edit it.
> 
> Does this work?
> 
> on mouseUp
>   get the selection
>   put word 1 of it into tWord
>   if tWord = "" then exit mouseUp
>   put (word 2 of the selectedchunk)-1 into tStart
>   set the textstyle of char (offset(tWord,it))+tStart to \
>     len(tWord)+tStart of fld 1 to "link"
> end mouseUp
> 

Answering my own question: no, it doesn't. Not in all cases. Only in some.

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