Control of Text Fields.

[Richmond]

On 5.11.21 20:37, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
> 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.

Then, surely you want to implement the FORWARD delete key: 65535
> 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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