Re: Deleting a char inside a textField via code

Not much help forthcoming around these parts: so: Diddit masen: *on mouseUp** ** put the selectedChunk into CHK** ** put word 4 of CHK into NUMERO** ** delete char NUMERO of fld "ff"** **end mouseUp* muffled rude noises. Richmond. ___ use-liveco

Re: Deleting a char inside a textField via code

What is unfortunate is that these "possibilities" are not possible: delete before the selectedText delete after the selectedText and THIS works ONLY when some text is selected (rather than before the insertion point): delete the selectedText there seems to be no obvious way to work out what

Re: Deleting a char inside a textField via code

Thanks On 31/8/2018 9:30 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: If you want to delete the last characters by script, why not something like: delete last char of fld X This works, of course, if it is the last char in the field. Or a more complex version might be put the selectedChunk into

Re: Deleting a char inside a textField via code

If you want to delete the last characters by script, why not something like: delete last char of fld X Or a more complex version might be put the selectedChunk into tWhere put word 2 of tWhere into tStart -- staring char position of the cursor put word 4 of tWhere into tEnd -- ending char positi

Re: Deleting a char inside a textField via code

Digging further . . . I found out that the problem appearas: 1. NOT to be with LiveCode. 2. NOT to be with MacOS. Because using a font other than my one works well. So? What hidden aspects of my Devawriter.ttf font are gumming up the works? Richmond. On 31/8/2018 6:44 pm, Richmond Mathewso

Re: Deleting a char inside a textField via code

To make things more complicated: if one has this: put numToCodePoint(7418) after the selectedText put numToCodePoint(7418) after the selectedText delete the last char of fld "XYZ" it is the target glyph that is deleted and NOT the useless square (ie. it is NOT the last char that is deleted).