Control of Text Fields.

[Richmond Mathewson]

Surely the script depends on what you want those buttons to do.

On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 03:41 Roger Guay via use-livecode, <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Alex. Sorry I didn’t make myself clear. I’m building a calculator
> stack with forward and back arrow buttons and a Delete button. What's the
> script for these buttons?
>
> Roger
>
> > On Nov 4, 2021, at 5:53 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Roger,
> >
> > I'm not sure I properly understand your question.
> >
> > here's a code snippet the moves the insertion point (in this sample,
> typing an 'f' moves it forward, 'b' moves it back). (Note this also works
> if there is some text selected - it moves the insertion to just after the
> selection, just like the arrow key does).
> >
> >> on keydown p
> >>    local t
> >>    switch p
> >>       case  "f"
> >>          put word 4 of the selectedchunk into t
> >>          select after char (t+1) of me
> >>          break
> >>       case "b"
> >>          put word 2 of the selectedchunk into t
> >>          select before char (t-1) of me
> >>          break
> >>    end  switch
> >> end keydown
> > To then delete the char in front of it, you'd do something like
> >
> >    put empty into char (t+1) of me
> >
> > Hope that's close enough to what you were asking, or at least gives you
> a starting place  :-),
> >
> > Alex.
> >
> > On 04/11/2021 20:49, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
> >> I simply want to be able to move the insertion iBeam in a focused field
> left and right, one char at a time (just like the left and right arrows
> keys), and then to delete the char in front of it (just like the Delete
> key). The dictionary was again of no use to me. Can someone please provide
> sample scripts?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Roger
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