x,y position of the mousechunk ?

[J. Landman Gay]

Can you share the workaround?

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On May 4, 2026 1:09:03 PM jbv via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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