Well I can't take any credit for the superb solution, but I can see it's
easily modified not to deselect the text:
on mouseUp
put the selectedChunk into rememberChunk
put the htmltext of the selectedChunk into var1
replace "<b>" with "" in var1
replace "</b>" with "" in var1
do "select "& rememberChunk
set the htmltext of the selection to var1
do "select "& rememberChunk
end mouseUp
It wouldn't be too hard to rewrite it as a function taking parameters for
bold, underline, etc. As a bonus the solution above is now able to work on
whatever text is selected regardless of which field it's in!
wohoo this works!! thats probably the best (cleanest,fastest) version ive seen 'till now, I will certainly trash the other version for this one..
BTW: It's still bad coding practice to use calculations in a loop, each
iteration of the loop will cause those calculations to have to be re-done,
it will also make you code difficult to maintain. If for any reason in the
future someone modifies your code to change the selection during one of the
loop passes then "the fourth word of the selectedChunk" could change it's
value - spelling disaster. I got my knuckles wrapped for doing such things
when I first worked in Apple USA on Applelink Offline! Take my work for it,
if you can get into the habit of putting things slightly longer it will be
more efficient, but safer!
Put the second word of the selectedChunk into startloop
Put the fourth word of the selectedChunk into endloop
repeat with myChar = startloop to endloop
-- now it's safe to do things like "select line 1 to 5 of ..."
End repeat
Well, if you buy me the license for rev ( see above mailing by me on that subject), I will happily use variables whenever I define a loop, but unfortunately, im bound to the 10 line limit, and I can't define a additional variable without using an additional line, so I have to produce some more spaghetti-code :(
sincerely yours
bj�rnke von gierke
