clickChunk discrepancy

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 12:08:12 EDT 2016


'Twould be nice . . . if:

clickChunk always yielded a 'word', and clickLine always yielded a line.

Richmond.

On 10.09.2016 19:03, Mike Bonner wrote:
> You can turn off "list behavior" in the properties, and it will work, but
> even then if you still want the clicked line to be selected, you'll have to
> do that in code yourself.
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Why, if one clicks on a word (a set of chars bounded by spaces) in a
>> standard *textField*
>> does *clickChunk* yield that word, while in a scrolling *listField* does
>> it yield the whole of the line?
>>
>> This is a problem if one wishes to know which word in a specific line in a
>> scrolling
>> listField an end-user has clicked.
>>
>> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27919
>>
>> Richmond.
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