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 <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 <bvla...@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 "up" depending on which part is >>>> clicked. >>>> >>>> How do I include punctuation in the entire word the user clicks on? >>>> In this example I want "check-up" returned >>>> >>>> Bill Vlahos >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
