OK, so I was close, but didn't get the cigar.
Here's an expanded snippet. The input is in a field called "fInput", the
buttons are all in a group, and handled by the group script (saves
having many tiny almost identical scripts).
The script uses the name of the target - but since I would never, ever
have a control named as a number, the digit buttons use their label instead.
If the user cannot select a chunk of text then some of this could be
shortened.
on mouseup
if the target = me then
-- click in the background in the group
exit mouseup
end if
local tChunk
focus on fld "fInput"
put the selectedchunk into tChunk
if the label of the target is a number then
put the label of the target into the selectedchunk
exit mouseUp
end if
local tFirst, tLast
put word 2 of tChunk into tFirst
put word 4 of tChunk into tLast
switch the short name of the target
case "go left"
select before char (min(tFirst, tLast)) of fld "fInput"
break
case "go right"
select after char (max(tFirst, tLast)) of fld "fInput"
break
case "Del"
-- remove the selection, or the char *after* the ibeam
if tFirst <= tLast then
put empty into char tFirst to tLast of fld "fInput"
else
put empty into char (tFirst) of fld "fInput"
end if
break
case "BS"
-- remove the selection, or the char *before* the ibeam
if tFirst <= tLast then
put empty into char tFirst to tLast of fld "fInput"
else
put empty into char (tFirst-1) of fld "fInput"
end if
break
-- all the other keys !!
default
end switch
end mouseup
Alex.
On 05/11/2021 01:39, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
Thanks, Alex. Sorry I didn’t make myself clear. I’m building a calculator stack
with forward and back arrow buttons and a Delete button. What's the script for
these buttons?
Roger
On Nov 4, 2021, at 5:53 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Hi Roger,
I'm not sure I properly understand your question.
here's a code snippet the moves the insertion point (in this sample, typing an
'f' moves it forward, 'b' moves it back). (Note this also works if there is
some text selected - it moves the insertion to just after the selection, just
like the arrow key does).
on keydown p
local t
switch p
case "f"
put word 4 of the selectedchunk into t
select after char (t+1) of me
break
case "b"
put word 2 of the selectedchunk into t
select before char (t-1) of me
break
end switch
end keydown
To then delete the char in front of it, you'd do something like
put empty into char (t+1) of me
Hope that's close enough to what you were asking, or at least gives you a
starting place :-),
Alex.
On 04/11/2021 20:49, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
I simply want to be able to move the insertion iBeam in a focused field left
and right, one char at a time (just like the left and right arrows keys), and
then to delete the char in front of it (just like the Delete key). The
dictionary was again of no use to me. Can someone please provide sample scripts?
Thanks,
Roger
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