Thanks Tom. Mark, what are some of the complications that you mentioned about scrolling fields? I am thinking about trying to emulate the little IOS selection handles.
I can see going from the selection to find a location to put the pin graphic, but I am not quite sure how to modify the selection to track the pin movement. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgra...@mac.com> wrote: > This works really well for me and it will handle multiple selected word on > different lines etc. I had a grc that was a dashed box: > > on mouseUp > put the formattedRect of the selectedChunk into tRect > put "4" into tMargin > put item 1 of tRect - tMargin into item 1 of tRect > put item 3 of tRect + tMargin + 3 into item 3 of tRect > put item 4 of tRect + tMargin into item 4 of tRect > set the rect of graphic "Box" to tRect > end mouseUp > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com > mcgra...@mac.com > > On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Michael Doub <miked...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Mark. I think it is going to be one of those days that I might as >> well stop looking for the forest or the trees. >> >> -= Mike >> >> >> On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: >> >>> Michael- >>> >>> Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:52:57 AM, you wrote: >>> >>>> I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left >>>> corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. >>>> How do you get the right side? >>> >>> The formattedWidth of the longest line plus the left. >>> >>> -- >>> -Mark Wieder >>> mwie...@ahsoftware.net >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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