Hi John, I am waiting on the key to begin to learn Rev. I have been in HC for a while this year, though. If Rev has similar functions, I would investigate:
selectedChunk clickChunk foundChunk Best regards, Ken N. ---------- on 12/16/01 2:48 PM, John at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hope someone can help. I have an application that needs to look the > text the user is typing and editing in real time. For each keystroke I > need to work out what the current word is. This is complicated a bit by > the fact that the user is free to edit text anywhere in the field - > simply capturing keystrokes and building the word as they type will not > work because they could have begun editing a word in previously typed > text. The following example solves the problem but is very, very slow > (to the point of making it unusable). > > on keyDown > global keyDownPoint > put the selectedLoc into keyDownPoint --get the location of the > insertion point > pass keyDown > end keyDown > > > on keyup > global keyDownPoint > put the selectedLoc into lastPoint --get the location of > the insertion point > click at keyDownPoint --click at the word > based on the KeyDown event > put the clicktext & return after field "debug" --so I can see what has > happened > click at lastPoint --put the insertion > point back so I don't type 'backwards' > pass keyUp > end keyup > > > Does anyone know of a way to do this that is reasonably fast? Any > thoughts at all would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > John Miskimins > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
