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On 23.09.2002 04:01, "David Vaughan" <david at dvkconsult.com.au> wrote:
> Toma
>
> Your global variable is "tTranslations" in the first handler and
> "tTranslation" in the second. Add an "s" to the second one and try
> again.
>
> cheers
> David
>
> On Monday, Sep 23, 2002, at 16:28 Australia/Sydney, Toma Tasovac wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I have a text file with a tab delimited list of words and
>> translations, i.e.
>>
>> word1 translation1
>> word2 translation2
>>
>> I use the following code to put this file into a variable and then
>> turn it into an array:
>>
>> on openStack
>> global tTranslations
>> put url "file:translations" into tTranslations
>> split tTranslations with cr and tab
>> end openStack
>>
>>
>> Then, I have a field with some text in it. I want the user to click
>> on a word in the text and have the translation displayed in another
>> field, called ³Translation Display² So...
>>
>> on mouseUp
>> global tTranslation
>> select the clickChunk
>> put the clickText into tClickedWord
>> put tTranslations[tClickedWord] into fld "Translation Display"
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> And that should be it. But it¹s not. When I click on the word, it
>> gets selected, but no translation appears in the ³Translation
>> Display². I get no error messages.
>>
>> Any ideas on how I should troubleshoot this?
>>
>> Toma
>
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Toma Tasovac
Princeton University
Department of Comparative Literature
318 East Pyne
Princeton, NJ 08544
ttasovac at princeton.edu
ttasovac at post.harvard.edu
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