Thanks to Craig Newman and Bob Sneidar. Unless I have misunderstood them,
which is possible, I think I have not clearly enough explained my problem.
I want a menu button in a palette to paste the clipboard's contents to the
topStack at the selectedChunk. This works if the selectedChunk actually
includes some hilited text ("char 1 to 4..."), but not if the selectedChunk is
an insertion point ("char 4 to 3..."). In the second case, but not in the
first, the insertion point disappears and the selectedChunk property loses its
value when a palette button is pressed, so the paste fails. I recall that
people resort to various ways of storing the selectedChunk, but am puzzled by
this inconsistency between the first and second cases.
My second question is whether LiveCode 7.01 only rarely shows the blinking
insertion point that it should be showing whenever the current selection is
before or after, or between consecutive, characters of an unlocked field. This
is my experience on Mac Yosemite, but it seems like such an obvious and
important flaw that I would think others would have complained.
Many thanks.
David Epstein
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