clickWord?

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Richmond.


Would the workaround be something like:



on mouseup
   put the number of words of char 1 to word 4 of the clickchunk of me into fld 2
end mouseup


Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
To: use >> How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 12:46 pm
Subject: clickWord?


Humpf . . .

There I with a locked scrolling list field and I want to click on the 
word "glaikit" in line
3, and if I use 'clickText' I get the whole sentence "He's a muckle 
glaikit gowk",
and if I use 'clickChunk' I get this 'char 24 to 49 of field 1' which is 
no good either.

Now, if Livecode had 'clickWord' I would be able to get "glaikit" 'just 
like that'.
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I am well aware of this:

http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/tips/mous003.htm

which does provide some sort of a work-around, but does have this rider:

" if there is any trailing punctuation, this is returned as well"

mind you, there are some of us who are getting a peerie bit tired of
endless work-arounds.

Richmond.

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