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 kl. 22:00 skrev Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > 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 >> group of words when the the textStyles is mixed. And I still think >> that is what I need in order to mimic the behaviour of either Word or >> Pages. > > Okay - so - create a stack, create a field, type some text in it and then see > if you find that the Text > Bold/Italic/... items work as you find in > Pages/Word (you should, they seem to for me)... > > If you find they work the same then: > > set the textStyle["bold"] of the selectedChunk to true -- "bold" can be > "italic" or any of the others, setting to false does the inverse > > Is definitely what you need. > > If the textStyle["bold"] of the selectedChunk is "mixed" it means some chars > are bold, some aren't - so you can make the appropriate decision as to what > to do based on your preference for either the Pages or Word behavior :) > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > P.S. The above feature was implemented a few versions ago precisely to allow > the functionality you describe to be implemented very easily... Prior to it, > the IDE menu items still did the right thing - but the code was, well, > nowhere near a single line... > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
