Control of Text Fields.

[Roger Guay]

Very good, Richmond. It’s impressive how quickly you piss around! And, it’s close but no cigar . The arrow keys on the keyboard move the ibeam in a field w/o highlighting any text. And, the Delete key deletes the char in front of the iBeam. I thought this would be easy to duplicate in LC, but maybe not??.

Why do I want to emulate these keys? Well at this point, It has become a challenge and I like challenges. BTW, the calculator that I am inspired to replicate is found in Mac Good Grapher which is bundled with the Mac. The Good Grapher Calculator has back and forward buttons and a Delete button that operate exactly as the keyboard ones

Thanks for playing with this,

Roger

> On Nov 5, 2021, at 10:15 AM, Richmond via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Pissed around a bit:
> 
> https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=36444
> 
> Love, Richmond.
> 
> On 5.11.21 15:59, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
>> I want them to do exactly the same thing that the keyboard keys do!! IOW, I want to emulate the delete key and the back and forward keys.
>> 
>> Roger
>> 
>>> On Nov 5, 2021, at 12:33 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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