ClickText function and punctuation

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Sat May 19 14:59:44 EDT 2012


If you use clickchunk rather than selectedchunk the space issue goes away.
(no chunk returned when clicking space)

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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