I did not mean "competing" in the sense of "b*gger you", I meant it in the
sense of healthy competition.
"But having said that: your "left-arrow' emulation gets it wrong if
there is a chunk selection active."
Quite possible as I spent about 15 minutes on that yesterday between
raking up dead leaves,
drilling through the metal head of a broken rake to screw it onto a
wooden handle, and a whole
slew of other things such as talking to my son in Lilongwe re setting up
discarded PCs out
there (Malawi) with Xubuntu and a programming suite that has recently
been effectively abandoned.
I have a sackload of kids writing that has just arrived via Viber that
has to be addressed:
after which I'll have a look at my "half cock job" and see if I can
tweak it.
Richmond.
On 7.11.21 2:44, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
On 06/11/2021 19:04, Richmond via use-livecode wrote:
My competing version is now "up":
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=36444&p=210241#p210241
Richmond.
Don't you mean "my cooperating version ..."; surely the use-list is
about helpful cooperatin and collaborative suggestions, not about
competing :-)
But having said that: your "left-arrow' emulation gets it wrong if
there is a chunk selection active.
left-arrow should position the iBeam to the left of the selection,
while this code positions it to the left of the rightmost character of
the selection.
Alex.
On 5.11.21 23:08, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
On 05/11/2021 20:18, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
Alex, I did not see that and it is not in my mailbox. Would you
please send it again?
Thanks,
Roger
Here it is again, below.
Or download the sample stack at
https://tweedly.org/downloads/calcbuttons.livecode
- not as pretty as Richmond's, doesn't even have all the digits ...)
Previously I said:
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.
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