Second stumbling block

Colin Holgate colinholgate at gmail.com
Sun May 28 05:27:37 EDT 2017


I just tried that, and the insertion point seems to be right after the new character. At least it is in LiveCode 8.


> On May 28, 2017, at 10:21 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's a right &*^%$# with *textField*s:
> 
> I have thousands of scripts that go something a bit like this:
> 
> *set****the****text****of****the****selectedText****to****numToCodePoint**(107)*
> 
> and when one is activated it pops the designated Unicode Glyph *INTO* the place
> in the text inwith a textField where the user has set the cursor . . .
> 
> and THAT is *groovy* . . .
> 
> BUT, then the cursor jumps to the end of the text line which is *extremely ungroovy*
> 
> as I want it to remain straight after the glyph it has just inserted in the textField . . .
> 
> Richmond.





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