We certainly are. I can already think of several sarcastic phrases to use,
should the situation call for it! :) And since my students all know me well
enough from earlier years, they will expect as much.
Tore
> 31. aug. 2018 kl. 22:13 skrev Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
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> P.S.
On 2018-08-31 20:57, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote:
The array form may well be what I need. I do think I still will have
to wait some time before I introduce it to my students.
Perhaps - certainly 'textFont' and 'textSize' have less syntactic
baggage. However, the actual underlying
It worked as advertised, provided I also check for the instance of the given
textStyle to be false, this works a charm. The code I need to show to my
students is easy enough for them to understand, without the need to actually
understand arrays. Thank you!
Best regards,
Tore
> 31. aug. 2018
On 2018-08-31 20:51, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote:
I got a bit confused there. Pages behaves as you say, Microsoft Word
would turn off bold on the initial push of the button, then adding
bold to the styles the next time.
This is why I thought I needed to find the style of each word in a
The array form may well be what I need. I do think I still will have to wait
some time before I introduce it to my students.
Best regards
Tore
> 31. aug. 2018 kl. 21:39 skrev Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
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> The key thing here is that using the array form of textStyle treats each
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I got a bit confused there. Pages behaves as you say, Microsoft Word would turn
off bold on the initial push of the button, then adding bold to the styles the
next time.
This is why I thought I needed to find the style of each word in a group of
words when the the textStyles is mixed. And I
Beats "looping around» all the text any day! I think I can use this with my
students in a couple of months time. For now, I think I have to stick to the
more basic tasks of just altering fonts, text size, text color and text styles
for single word selections.
Best Regards
Tore Nilsen
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On 2018-08-31 20:33, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote:
Microsoft Word seems to behave the way you suggest, in the sense that
if any given text style is present among the words in the selection
then it is removed. Pages behaves differently. If a given text style
is true for some of the words in
Microsoft Word seems to behave the way you suggest, in the sense that if any
given text style is present among the words in the selection then it is
removed. Pages behaves differently. If a given text style is true for some of
the words in the selection, Pages will initially keep this style for
You could try:
on mouseUp
put the selectedChunk into sc
put word 2 of sc into strt
put word 4 of sc into stp
put fld word 7 of sc into txt
put selectedWords(strt,stp,txt) into fld "out"
end mouseUp
function selectedWords strt,stp,txt
put the num of words in char 1 to strt of txt into
On 2018-08-31 19:47, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote:
This information is useful if you want to implement changes to the
styles of the selected text, where textStyles report mixed. In a
selection with mixed styles, setting the textStyle has to be done on a
word by word basis (or char by char
I am struggling with a problem related to the selection of parts of a text in a
field. I would like to know which words are selected, that is, I would like to
know the range of words selected. None of the functions available in LiveCode
will do this. If I use selectedChunkI will get the range
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