select after the selectedText

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Fri Apr 29 10:42:20 EDT 2011


select after char -1 of fld 1

Also works.

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> Richmond.
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> Would changing to "select after the text" make this better?
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> Craig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:51 am
> Subject: select after the selectedText
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> So, here I am with a large textField, and as I merrily type into it new
> characters keep getting
> added to the end of the string (as one would expect):
>
> Now, this is a textField being filled up with unicode (double-byte) chars,
> and to make sure the
> next chars gets placed in the correct place my insertion routine ends with
>
> select after the selectedText
>
> HOWEVER, when my line of text gets near to the edge of my textField I tend
> to hit the RETURN
> or ENTER button on my keyboard and start a new line . . .
>
> after which things go "funny", and the  select after the selectedText keeps
> pushing my
> text insertion point back to the end of line one of my text.
>
> Obviously "this just won't do" . . . .
>
> Richmond.
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