Hi Leon,
Check out these properties of a field in Director's help file, it might
help.
the selStart
the selEnd
the selection
best regards
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Ramesh CT
http://www.lingoman.net/
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>>>
How can I find out where the cursor is in a text field sprite? Not the
mouse position but the actual text cursor (vert line) itself. I need it to
imitate the action of holding SHIFT+HOME or SHIFT+END to select a chunk
from the current char to the start or end char of a line.
>>>
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