hello, i did not get time to do the real hackin before summer closed my lab. it seems to interact with all of my other clickChunk code (mouseCharChunk is a new one).
i do look forward to integrating this into my program in September. thanks again, Erik --- Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, Erik, ready for some real hackin'? > > Step 1: Set the margins of your field so that > the user can't click to > the left or above any text (I set the margin to > 2). (If you need the > user to see a margin, make this field > transparent and place it on top of > another locked field that is a bit bigger to > simulate a margin.) > > Step 2: Set the lockText of the field to true. > (You probably already did > this.) > > Step 3: We're going to take advantage of the > formattedText() function, > that inserts CRs where lines wrap in text > fields by temporarily putting > the formattedText into the field, seeing where > the user clicked, and > then resetting the text to what it was. We'll > use the mouseCharChunk and > mouseLine functions instead of the > clickCharChunk and clickLine > functions because they're the ones that work. > > Put the following script into your field: > > on mouseUp > put me into tText > put the formattedText of me into me > put the mouseCharChunk into tChunk > put the mouseLine into tLine > put tText into me > if tChunk <> "" then > put "The user clicked on " & tChunk > else > if tLine <> "" then > put "The user clicked after the end of " > & tLine > else > put "The user clicked past the end of the > text." > end if > end if > end mouseUp > > In my testing, I had a field whose text wrapped > like this: > > Now is the time for all good men to > come to the aid of their party. > > Here's another test of the second > paragraph. > > When I clicked between "good" and "men", I got: > > The user clicked on char 29 to 29 of field 1 > > When I cliked after the "." in "party." > (between it at the right edge of > the field), I got: > > The user clicked after the end of line 2 of > field 1 > > When I clicked below the word "paragraph" > (between the baseline of it > and the bottom of the field), I got: > > The user clicked past the end of the text. > > Hopefully you'll be able to tweak this for your > own purposes. > > Have fun! > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of > > erik hansen > > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:20 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: field: click on no char > > > > > > --- Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Erik, are you trying to know exactly where > the > > > user clicked (I mean "in > > > the left margin next to line 3 of the > field"), > > > or just whether the user > > > clicked on text or not? > > > > the areas in a field that have NO text are > the > > concern. say my third line has only 20 chars > of > > text and the field is wide enough to handle > 80 > > chars. click where char 40 would be (if i had > > padded 80 spaces) and you get no reading. > > > > the user is used to a cursor "snapping" back > to > > the end of the text. > > > > the easy solution is just to pad with spaces > > before and after the text. all the editor > needs > > to know is that the user clicked on a char > before > > or after a string of linked text. there could > be > > 1 char or 100 chars between word 1 and word > 2. > > the result would be "1 2" in my usage. before > > word 1 is "0 1" > > > > > > ===== > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.erikhansen.org > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, > forms, and more > http://tax.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > 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 ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
