x,y position of the mousechunk ?

[jbv at mozik.fr]

Thank you for the suggestion.
But I have some HTMLtext inside flds inside groups inside a main group
and the structure seems to be too complex to catch the selectedloc 
properly.

But nevermind, I found a workaround that works quite fast.

Le 2026-05-04 13:49, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode a écrit :
> Will the top left position do?
> 
> select the mousechunk
> get the selectedloc
> select empty
> 
> The highlighting happens too fast to see.
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On May 4, 2026 8:43:20 AM jbv via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> Is there a way to know the x,y position of the mousechunk,
>> especially when the content of a field is not just plain
>> text, but HTMLtext with more that 1 line ?
>> 
>> For the x value, I tried to use the formattedwidth of the
>> portion of text given by the mousechunk.
>> And for the y value, I tried a combination of the font
>> size, the line height and the top field margin.
>> But there are exceptions that don't return accurate values...
>> 
>> Thank you in advance.
>> Best,
>> jbv
>> 
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