Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2018-08-31 20:51, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote:
> I got a bit confused there. Pages behaves as you say, Microsoft Word
> would turn off bold on the initial push of the button, then adding
> bold to the styles the next time.
> 
> This is why I thought I needed to find the style of each word in a
> group of words when the the textStyles is mixed. And I still think
> that is what I need in order to mimic the behaviour of either Word or
> Pages.

Okay - so - create a stack, create a field, type some text in it and 
then see if you find that the Text > Bold/Italic/... items work as you 
find in Pages/Word (you should, they seem to for me)...

If you find they work the same then:

   set the textStyle["bold"] of the selectedChunk to true -- "bold" can 
be "italic" or any of the others, setting to false does the inverse

Is definitely what you need.

If the textStyle["bold"] of the selectedChunk is "mixed" it means some 
chars are bold, some aren't - so you can make the appropriate decision 
as to what to do based on your preference for either the Pages or Word 
behavior :)

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

P.S. The above feature was implemented a few versions ago precisely to 
allow the functionality you describe to be implemented very easily... 
Prior to it, the IDE menu items still did the right thing - but the code 
was, well, nowhere near a single line...

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