restore selection from selectedChunk expression

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

Perhaps there are more elegant ways, but a quick solution would be

do "select" && gCurrentSelection

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Mark Schonewille

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On 8/1/2015 00:52, Brahmanathaswami wrote:
> If we make a text selection and store it as a selectedChunk string
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> e.g
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> gCurrentSelection
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> which them would have say... a value of
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> char 669 to 1094 of field 6
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> How to I re-select that text?
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> global gCurrentSelection
> on mouseUp
>     set the backgroundcolor of gCurrentSelection to yellow
> end mouseUp
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> works'
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> but
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> global gCurrentSelection
> on mouseUp
>    selectgCurrentSelection
> end mouseUp
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> does not... an i can't find a way to re-set the selection ....
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