Hi Richmond, The itemDel can be only one char/byte long. If the useUnicode is true, then numToChar(32) returns 2 bytes. Hence the error. The docs are correct.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 18 jun 2011, at 12:28, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > >>>> Is there an equivalent to the mouseText, or the mouseChunk, or the >>>> mouseCharChunk that is Unicode-aware? Or some ingenious way to retrieve the >>>> word that the user clicked? > > doing THIS: > > on mouseDown > set the useUnicode to true > set the unicodeText of fld "fEND" to the unicodeText of the clickText > end mouseDown > > only works with the FIRST word! > > changing clickText to clickChunk gets exactly the same result. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > so, here I am mucking around with itemDelimiter.......................... > > the Documentation states that I can write this: > > set the itemDelimiter to numToChar(32) > > but this throws a bug message: " execution eror . . . (Chunk: source is not a > character) near " ", char 4 > > which would suggest the Docs are wrong ??????? > > these: set the itemDelimiter to " " / set the itemDelimiter to space > > also result in NO JOY. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode