Wouldn't it be neat...

[Mike Bonner]

does it work if you put it into the selectedchunk instead of the
selectedtext?

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> I take it back. I thought I had it working but alas, not so much. I can’t
> make it work for a button in a palette stack (a plugin) and selectedText
> from the Script Editor of the topStack. Here is my button script:
>
> on mouseUp
>
>         set the defaultstack to the topstack
>
>         put the selectedtext into tText
>
>         if the first char of tText is not quote then put quote before tText
>
>         if the last char of tText is not quote then put quote after tText
>
>         put tText into the selectedtext
>
> end mouseUp
>
> The traversalOn of this button is indeed unchecked. When I click the
> button, the selectedText in the Script Editor goes unhilited, and nothing
> else happens. Funny thing is, I could swear I had it working before my
> previous post???
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roger
>
>
> > On Aug 22, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > How right you are!  Thanks!
> >
> >
> >> On Aug 22, 2016, at 7:39 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Clicking a button should only deselect text when the button's
> traversalOn property is true.
> >>
> >> If that were not the case it would not be possible to make toolbars
> that act on text, and such a limitation would be a bug.
> >
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