position of text-curson within field

[Nicolas Cueto]

Thanks, Mark.

Strange, during devpt I couldn't press "apply" in the script editor when I
had the line "pass backspaceKey"... Maybe I misspelt...

--
Nicolas Cueto

On 20 February 2018 at 10:42, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 02/19/2018 05:01 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode wrote:
>
> As you can see, the reason I'm interrupting the backspace key is to find
>> out the number of lines in a field after a char is deleted.
>>
>
> I would do that differently:
>
> local sHowManyLines
>
> on backspaceKey
>   send "howManyLinesNow" to me in 0 milliseconds
>   pass backspaceKey
> end backspaceKey
>
> on howManyLinesNow
>   put the number of lines of me into sHowManyLines
> end howManyLinesNow
>
> --
>  Mark Wieder
>  ahsoftware at gmail.com
>
>
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