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

[Andre.Bisseret]

Le 17 mars 10 à 19:06, J. Landman Gay a écrit :

> BNig wrote:
>> Jaque,
>> I like your solution a lot. I modified it a bit in case a word is  
>> not fully
>> selected in the first place. It would only set the textstyle to the  
>> selected
>> part of the word.
>> -------------------------
>> on mouseUp
>>   select word 1 of the selection
>>   if the number of words in the selection = 0 then exit mouseUp
>>   put word -1 of the selectedChunk into tFieldNbr
>>   put the number of words of char 1 to (word 2 of the  
>> selectedChunk) of
>> field tFieldNbr into tWordNbr
>>   select word tWordNbr of field tFieldNbr
>>   set the textstyle of the selectedChunk to "link"
>> end mouseup
>> -------------------------
>> This way a user will have the textstyle of the word changed even if  
>> he did
>> not include the last letter or two in the selection. Selecting text  
>> with a
>> mouse can easily be one off for a lot of users.
>> regards
>> Bernd
>
> Good point, you're right. But I think it needs to use word 4 of the  
> selectedchunk,

> or else it fails if the first selected character is a space.

No, works even if there are several spaces as first characters of the  
selection

> We also don't need the first selection any more.

>
> on mouseUp
>  if the number of words in the selection = 0 then exit mouseUp
>  get the selectedchunk
>  select word (the number of words of char 1 to (word 4 of it) of fld \
>     (word -1 of it)) of fld (word -1 of it)
>  set the textstyle of the selectedChunk to "link"
> end mouseup
>
> I wanted to keep it to 3 lines again but it got too hard to read. It  
> isn't all that easy even now...

But this one sets the textStyle of the last word of the selection, not  
the first one ;-)

André

>
> Love these little brainstorming list things.
>
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