Location of text in a field

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Hi.


Would the selectedLoc help?


select char 3 of word 9 of fld "yourField"
answer the selectedLoc


Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wed, May 27, 2015 2:21 pm
Subject: Location of text in a field


Hi,

Is there a function that returns the pixel location of a particular char
in a field?

I’m working in LC 6.1.3 to change a whole bunch of long one-line
fields of text to short one-line fields.

As I go to LC 7, these fields are
displaying text wider than before in OS X (but not Windows) and I need that text
to continue to line up under images.

I have, what’s called in music theory,
“roman numeral analysis" which is text. This lies under musical notation which
are images.

The text is currently a series of 1-3 chars separated by many
space characters in a long field. I’m trying to program a method to put those
1-3 chars in their own fields, each field now displaying text where it
originally was.

I tried substituting tabs for the spaces, but it doesn’t
consistently display the same as before.

The text must remain as text as it
is searchable.

Any suggestions?

Peter
Bogdanoff
UCLA
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