curiosities in object reference

[Mike Bonner]

I wish it was easy to work with "the styledtext" but multiple runs get
really convoluted. They contain the actual text though, so if you're better
at navigating arrays than I am, it might be possible to "put the styledtext
of fRef into tStyledA" then make adjustments, then "set the styledtext of
field fRef to tStyledA"

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Paul Hibbert <paul at livecode.org> wrote:

> If you are absolutely sure your field has a unique name then this works…
>
>    put "text" into fRef
>    put "deux" into word 2 of control fRef
>
> …but, I think if you are replacing text in this way you will still lose
> any formatting, so you may need to do something like this…
>
>    put "text" into fRef
>    put the textStyle of word 2 of control fRef into tStyle
>    put "deux" into word 2 of control fRef
>    set the textStyle of word 2 of control fRef to tStyle
>
> or, another alternative…
>
>    put the layer of field "text" into fRef
>    put the textStyle of word 2 of control fRef into tStyle
>    put "deux" into word 2 of control fRef
>    set the textStyle of word 2 of control fRef to tStyle
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> > On Apr 19, 2015, at 13:20, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So I have a field, let's say field "text", with the contents "one two
> three four".
> >
> > if I do this:
> >   put the long id of fld "text" into fRef
> >   put "deux" into word 2 of fRef
> >
> > it puts "deux" into word 2 of "field id 1022 of stack…" and doesn't
> resolve fRef as a field reference.
> >
> > But if I do:
> >   put the text of fRef into tText
> >
> > it *does* resolve fRef as a field reference, as I would expect. It
> appears that the engine only resolves these references when the
> context/syntax indicates that it should expect an object reference, and not
> otherwise.
> >
> > Is there any way I can put "deux" into word 2 of the field without
> jumping through hoops, like
> >   put "deux" into newWord
> >   do "put newWord into word two of" && fRef
> > ??
> >
> > I don't want to do:
> >   put the text of fRef into tText
> >   put "deux" into word 2 of tText
> >   set the text of fRef to tText
> > because the field may contain formatted text that I want to preserve.
> >
> > ideas? or am I stuck with hoops?
> >
> > -- Peter
> >
> > Peter M. Brigham
> > pmbrig at gmail.com
> > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
> >
> >
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