Re: ClickText function and punctuation

2012-05-19 Thread Bill Vlahos
Mike, Excellent. That works. Thank you, Bill Vlahos On May 19, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > If you use clickchunk rather than selectedchunk the space issue goes away. > (no chunk returned when clicking space) > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> Doh, you s

Re: ClickText function and punctuation

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Bonner
If you use clickchunk rather than selectedchunk the space issue goes away. (no chunk returned when clicking space) On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Doh, you said locked field, but it should work either way. > > Yep, just tested and the same code works for both locked and un

Re: ClickText function and punctuation

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Bonner
Doh, you said locked field, but it should work either way. Yep, just tested and the same code works for both locked and unlocked. Only thing is, if the intervening space is clicked the following word is returned so you might need to check for this case. On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Mike Bonn

Re: ClickText function and punctuation

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Bonner
On an unlocked text field I tried this: on selectionchanged put word (the number of words in char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedchunk) of field 1) of field 1 into field 2 end selectionchanged And it works fine. On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > Words are defined by LiveCode

ClickText function and punctuation

2012-05-19 Thread Bill Vlahos
Words are defined by LiveCode to include punctuation. put word 2 of "the check-up is good" returns "check-up" The clickText function doesn't include punctuation in the word. If you put the phrase "the check-up is good" in a locked field, clickText only returns either "check" or "u