My goal for this is to have a field with data that is structured. The user clicks on the item to edit the contents in another field(s) and replaced when the editing is done. I can't do that if I don't know which item was selected.
Bill Vlahos
Hi Bill,
You could try a Parallel Numerical Lineal Parser in conjunction with the htmlText capability.
Not knowing Transcript very well there is probably an easier way but this is how I would do it not knowing for sure.
Take your items and put them inside tags sets <item><p> & </p>. You can include <p></p> for line breaks inside your items. You then use offset() to make a list of char locations for all instances of "<item><p>":
Warning untested code:
global itemArray2
put yourTextToSearch into tZap
put 0 into tStart
put 1 into tElementNum
repeat
put offset("<item><p>",tZap,tStart) into tNum
put (tNum + tStart) into tStart
if tNum < 1 then exit repeat
put tStart into itemArray[tElementNum]
add 1 to tElementNum
end repeat
put the number of chars in tZap into xZap
put xZap into itemArray[tElementNum + 1]Now you have an array of numerical values for the beginning of each item delimiter, "<item><p>". With a little clean up math to remove the number of chars within any tag set you will be left with the same number of characters that are rendered in your field after using the htmlText to present it. Use the array to make a numerically corrected array. You now have a numerical reference to compare the char number (the clickCharChunk) to the range that fits in the new array. In that way you will get the item number you are looking for when a user clicks in your field.
array clean up script: put 1 into itemArray2[1]
repeat with xy = 1 to tElementNum put itemArray[xy] into get1 put itemArray[xy + 1] into get2 put char get1 to (get2 - 1) of tZap into holdItemWithTags put the htmlText of holdItemWithTags into zip put the number of chars in zip into holdNumZip put holdNumZip into itemArray2[xy + 1] end repeat
-- with the already created global itemArray2
-- put this in myField script:
on mouseUp global itemArray2 put the clickCharChunk of myField into zap put 1 into z repeat if itemArray2[z] >= zap then put z into itemNumberIs exit repeat end if add 1 to z end repeat end mouseUp
-- you now have the item number in itemNumberIs
Mark
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