Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

Mark Waddingham wrote: > Whenever a range of text is set in a field, the selection is set to > the beginning of the chunk that was set - so in the case of 'replace' > acting on the whole field, that would be the beginning. > > Using the '(replacing | preserving) styles' form works slightly >

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

> Craig wrote: > The textChanged handler sort of works. If you leave the field and replace the > cursor, the next char goes after the currently selected line. From then on it > goes before the current text.The backspace key does not really work. Hey, of course it works. When editing it deletes

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

Maybe share a sample stack when you get it worked out? This could be useful for users in places that use right-to-left text. We could with sticking points that way. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 21, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: >

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

On 2017-09-21 19:48, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: For example, let's say you have a right to left language FOO which has letters A, B, C; compared to a left to right language BAR which has letters X, Y and Z. Hello in FOO is spoken A-B-C; Hello in BAR is spoken X-Y-Z. However, as

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

Well, at least this explains it:\ "...essentially" on textchanged select before me end textchanged -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

Well it just goes to show that I do need a computer. Mental scripting only sounds, er, sound. This works: on keyDown, tKey    if the shiftkey is down and the capsLockKey is down then put tKey & return before me    else put tKey before me select before me end keyDown All the other "control"

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

On 2017-09-21 18:48, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Indeed it does. At first glance the behavior seems at least unintuitive. It also appears to prevent the Backspace key from having any effect. Is it a bug? A feature? Hmmm... On further consideration it may make sense, since the

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

Of course it is essentially: on textchanged select before me end textchanged ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

> R.G. wrote > Indeed it does. At first glance the behavior seems at least > unintuitive. It also appears to prevent the Backspace key from having > any effect. Is it a bug? A feature? You can also edit one char at a time. Isn't that a feature for right to left languages? One has simply to

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

hh wrote: > hh wrote: > on textChanged > replace space with space in me -- or whatever > end textChanged Bob S. wrote: Whut? All that will do is replace spaces with spaces. That will not reverse the order of the typed text. (Instead of "space" use also any other char, for example "cr") It

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

> > hh wrote: > > on textChanged > > replace space with space in me -- or whatever > > end textChanged > Bob S. wrote: > Whut? All that will do is replace spaces with spaces. That will not reverse > the order of the typed text. (Instead of "space" use also any other char, for example "cr") It

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

Whut? All that will do is replace spaces with spaces. That will not reverse the order of the typed text. Bob S > On Sep 21, 2017, at 03:00 , hh via use-livecode > wrote: > > on textChanged > replace space with space in me -- or whatever > end textChanged

Re: How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

Hi. Not sure at all what that handler does. But something like this, off the top of my head: on keyDown, tKey if the optionKey is down then put return & tKey before me else put tKey before me end keyDown Craig Newman -- Sent from:

How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field

Because "textChanged" was also mentioned in a recent thread. This is a handler full of features: *** How to to type bottom to up and right to left in a field *** Simply script the field as follows and start typing. on textChanged replace space with space in me -- or whatever end textChanged