Re: position of text-curson within field

2018-02-19 Thread Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode
Thanks, Mark. Strange, during devpt I couldn't press "apply" in the script editor when I had the line "pass backspaceKey"... Maybe I misspelt... -- Nicolas Cueto On 20 February 2018 at 10:42, Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 02/19/2018 05:01 PM, Nicolas

Re: position of text-curson within field

2018-02-19 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 02/19/2018 05:01 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode wrote: As you can see, the reason I'm interrupting the backspace key is to find out the number of lines in a field after a char is deleted. I would do that differently: local sHowManyLines on backspaceKey send "howManyLinesNow" to me i

position of text-curson within field

2018-02-19 Thread Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode
I'm trying to script a special backspace script. As is the usual backspace behavior, I still want the char to the left of the flashing cursor to be deleted. Wherever that cursor happens to be. But because the backscape key cannot get passed, it seemsI have to manually delete that character to the