set selectedText?

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

uh, maybe something a little simpler here...

try "the" selectedLine (w/o the quotes, of course)...

selectedLine is a property, and must be preceded by the word "the" when 
used.

On Nov 18, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>> While we are on this topic, why is it that I can say:
>>
>> put selectedLine of the target into temp
>> delete temp
>>
>> but not
>>
>> delete selectedLine of the target
>>
>> What is the fundamental point I am missing?
>> --
>>
>> Kaveh Bazargan
>
> Well, er, let's see ...
>
> The target will presumably be whatever you just clicked.
>
> Suppose the target is an object that has lines (eg a field) and 
> clicking on
> it results in your first script executing , then temp would contain a
> string of the form : "line n of field x"
>
> so in the first example, the second line evaluates to:
>
> delete line n of field x
>
> which is OK syntax
>
> However in the second example, if the target is field x, then the 
> statment
> would be
>
> delete line n of field x of the target
>
> Or: delete line n of field x of field x
>
> Field x can't be the owner of field x. To be the owner of field x, the
> target would have to be a card or a group or a stack.
>
> But if the script ran because you clicked the card for instance, the
> statement would mean:
>
> delete selectedline of card n
>
> cards don't have selectedlines so selectedline so I would expect an 
> error:
>
> ===
>
> Having said all that, I can't actually remember the last time I used 
> "the
> target" for anything, it's not part of my scripting style, trying to 
> answer
> your question has maybe reminded me why :-)
>
> ====
>
> Does that help ?
>
> Martin Baxter
>
>
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$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
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