Re: Mapping Field Text Ranges (was Re: Interprocess Communication (IPC) under OSX)

2017-12-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Mark, Thank you so much On 12/28/2017 12:45 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: > On 2017-12-19 19:43, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: >> I'm pretty sure it would be possible to write a handler which takes >> the styledText array of a field in 6.7.11 and a list of old

Re: Mapping Field Text Ranges (was Re: Interprocess Communication (IPC) under OSX)

2017-12-28 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 12/28/17 2:42 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 12/28/2017 09:45 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: 3) The char chunks are old-style (pre-5.5) byte indicies not codeunit indicies The crux of the problem Paul is having comes down to (3) which has some background to

Re: Mapping Field Text Ranges (was Re: Interprocess Communication (IPC) under OSX)

2017-12-28 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 12/28/2017 09:45 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: 3) The char chunks are old-style (pre-5.5) byte indicies not codeunit indicies The crux of the problem Paul is having comes down to (3) which has some background to explain. OMG! This is what Mr. Waddingham comes up with while

Mapping Field Text Ranges (was Re: Interprocess Communication (IPC) under OSX)

2017-12-28 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-12-19 19:43, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: I'm pretty sure it would be possible to write a handler which takes the styledText array of a field in 6.7.11 and a list of old indicies, returning a list of new char indicies... Would that help? Paul expressed an interest in how