How many words from start of text to my selection

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sun Apr 23 04:10:50 EDT 2017


HYi Kaveh,

LiveCode sets the focus to the clicked object after running the scripts. 
If I would select text the normal way, the selection would be deselected 
again, because the focus would go away from the field to the button 
containing the script. Using the send in time command, I make sure that 
this command is executed after LiveCode completes its routines, also 
after LiveCode sets the focus.

If you use a different way to execute the script rather then from a 
button or other object that is activated by a click, you won't need this 
last line.

Moreover, sometimes I have this problem and sometimes not. I haven't 
figured out why. At least, when it occurs, there is a way to solve it.

Kind regards,

Mark Schonewille
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Op 22-Apr-17 om 16:05 schreef Kaveh Bazargan:
> Wonderful :-)
>
> Can you give me a hint of this line please:
>
> send "select word" && myChunk && "of fld 1" to me in 0 millisecs
>
> Why not just
>
> select word" && myChunk && "of fld 1"
>
> On 22 April 2017 at 12:33, Mark Schonewille via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> This tells you the number of the selected word:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>    put the selectedChunk into myChunk
>>    put word 4 of myChunk into myChunk
>>    put the number of words of char 1 to myChunk of fld 1
>>    send "select word" && myChunk && "of fld 1" to me in 0 millisecs
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>> http://economy-x-talk.com
>> https://www.facebook.com/marksch
>>
>> Buy the most extensive book on the
>> LiveCode language:
>> http://livecodebeginner.economy-x-talk.com
>>
>> Op 22-Apr-17 om 13:18 schreef Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode:
>>
>>> I have selected some text in a field. I want to convert that to "word xxx
>>> of fld yyy". Any hints on how I do that?
>>>
>>>
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