Wouldn't it be neat...

[Roger Guay]

What I discovered is that a field (used for another feature) in my rTools general catchall plugin butts in and prevents this code from seeing the selectedText of the topStack. Indeed, if a paste a field in your TextToolBar stack (which I love, BTW), your stack fails as well. And the solution . . . wait for it . . . use the ol Richard Gaskin maneuver and set the TraversalOn of the field to false.

Thanks again, Richard!

Cheers,

Roger



> On Aug 22, 2016, at 9:38 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> No, mine is indeed set to palette yet does not work and your’s works just fine. I’ll report back when I figure out why. 
> 
> Thanks for your patience
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Roger wrote:
>> 
>>> I take it back. I thought I had it working but alas, not so much.
>>> I can’t make it work for a button in a palette stack (a plugin)
>>> and selectedText from the Script Editor of the topStack. Here is
>>> my button script:
>>> 
>>> on mouseUp
>>> 	set the defaultstack to the topstack
>>> 	put the selectedtext into tText
>>> 	if the first char of tText is not quote then put quote before tText
>>> 	if the last char of tText is not quote then put quote after tText
>>> 	put tText into the selectedtext
>>> end mouseUp
>>> 
>>> The traversalOn of this button is indeed unchecked. When I click
>>> the button, the selectedText in the Script Editor goes unhilited,
>>> and nothing else happens. Funny thing is, I could swear I had it
>>> working before my previous post???
>>