ClickText function and punctuation

[Mike Bonner]

Doh, you said locked field, but it should work either way.

Yep, just tested and the same code works for both locked and unlocked. Only
thing is, if the intervening space is clicked the following word is
returned so you might need to check for this case.

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> On an unlocked text field I tried this:
>
> on selectionchanged
> put word (the number of words in char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedchunk)
> of field 1) of field 1 into field 2
> end selectionchanged
>
> And it works fine.
>
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Words are defined by LiveCode to include punctuation.
>>        put word 2 of "the check-up is good" returns "check-up"
>>
>> The clickText function doesn't include punctuation in the word.
>>        If you put the phrase "the check-up is good" in a locked field,
>> clickText only returns either "check" or "up" depending on which part is
>> clicked.
>>
>> How do I include punctuation in the entire word the user clicks on?
>>        In this example I want "check-up" returned
>>
>> Bill Vlahos
>>
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