Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richard, Probably, that won't do it. Try this: put (number of lines of the formattedText of \ char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedChunk) of myTarget) is \ (the number of lines of the formattedText of myTarget) -- true|false -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richard, The selectedLine counts the number of hard returns. Just try it. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK,

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Probably, that won't do it. Try this: put (number of lines of the formattedText of \ char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedChunk) of myTarget) is \ (the number of lines of the formattedText of

determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
If selectedLine() is 1, I am in the first line of a field. I can't tell, though, what the last line is--the number of lines relies on CR, not how the field is actually formatted. I've looked for other line entries in the dictionary, but without any luck. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702)

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Sep 18, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: If selectedLine() is 1, I am in the first line of a field. I can't tell, though, what the last line is--the number of lines relies on CR, not how the field is actually formatted. I've looked for other line entries in the dictionary, but

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure what you mean, how the field is actually formatted. If you are talking about possibly having empty lines following the last text in the field, then the number of lines of (word 1 to -1 of fld myField) would

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread dunbarx
Try this: answer the formattedText of fld yourField It wraps unwrapped text with hard returns, and that will give the last line Craig -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 11:23 am

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richard, There are probably many ways to do this, Here's one: put number of lines of the formattedText of \ char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedChunk) of me -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: put number of lines of the formattedText of \ char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedChunk) of me Ah. Obvious now that you mention it :) Thank you. And to make me feel *really* sheepish: I was