Hi, List! It's me again with my Unicode problems in bilingual fields. I just spent four hours on this problem and gave up.
I'm trying to retrieve the text of the word the user clicked on in a locked field. As far as I can tell, the MouseChunk and the mouseText are useless with Unicode, and especially with a mixed Unicode and Roman text. I tried using the mouseCharChunk, and then to decrement the char position until I hit a word delimiter and to increment the char position until I hit a word delimiter, but the problem is that a Roman character (including punctuation) is one byte long while a non-Roman character is two bytes, and I cannot interpret the two positions that the mouseCharChunk returns unless I know which characters in the field are Roman, and which are non-Roman--and of course I can't know that. Is there an equivalent to the mouseText, or the mouseChunk, or the mouseCharChunk that is Unicode-aware? Or some ingenious way to retrieve the word that the user clicked? I see a similar problem coming up when I start using hyperlinks in bilingual texts: retrieving the text of a chunk whose textStyle is set to "link" involves a very similar issue. Slava _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
