how to detect insertion point

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Larry.


It takes a while to learn the many LC commands, functions and properties that pertain to the task at hand. Experimentation is the best way, but also do use the dictionary, trying out various words that seem to  fit what you are looking for. And especially the "see also" entries when you do.


In your original post, you mentioned the word "selection". That, or maybe "select" by itself, would likely have led you to many possible lines of experimentation. After a while, you will have a a sense of what and how to search for in the dictionary, and the array of options presented there will lead you farther. I would keep the filter set to "all".


Craig



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From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
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Sent: Sun, Oct 5, 2014 11:26 pm
Subject: Re: how to detect insertion point


Hi Larry,

To detect the insertion pint when the user clicks in a field, you can do this:

on selectionChanged
   put the selectedchunk
end selectionChanged

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Op 6 okt. 2014 om 04:30 heeft <larry at significantplanet.org> het volgende 
geschreven:

> Hello,
> 
> I have several fields... myField1, myField2, etc.
> 
> When the user clicks within a field, I want to detect the (?? selection, 
insertion ??) and run a script.
> 
> I've experimented for over an hour with no luck.
> 
> The only thing I found that sort of works is:
> on mouseEnter
>  do stuff
> end mouseEnter
> 
> The problem with that is that one of the things I want to do is change the 
color of the field while the script is doing stuff and only change back to the 
original color when the stuff is finished, and not when the mouse leaves.  It is 
too clunky to require the user to leave the mouse in the field while the stuff 
is being done.
> 
> I hope that makes sense.
> Thanks for any help.
> Larry
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