Mark, I had a situation where it thought I was French. Go to your setups or preferences and look at language settings. I also find that asking Google for info is useful, even for questions about livecode. Bill
William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Mar 5, 2016, at 5:17 AM, Mark Mitchell <cowh...@mac.com> wrote: > > Thanks to Devin, Terry and Matt > > I tweaked Devin’s code a bit, and went with a global variable as otherwise it > flashes and gives you an epileptic seizure! > > But, this works great: > on mouseWithin — seems to work better than mousemove > global PastWhichLine > > if pastWhichLine is empty then > put the mouseLine into pastwhichLine > end if > > put the mouseline into tThisLine > if tThisLine <> PastWhichLine then > > set the backgroundColor of pastwhichline to empty > set the backgroundColor of tThisLine to (220,220,250) > put tThisLine into PastWhichLine > end if > end mouseWithin > > Thanks folks! > > マーク.. (Apple mail has a bug that automatically changes my name to Japanese > and there is no way to stop it… sigh…) > >> >>> On Mar 4, 2016, at 1:08 PM, Mark Mitchell <cowh...@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>> (Sorry Heather! I?m sending this message again from the ?proper? account..) >>> >>> I?m not sure how long it has been around, but I have just discovered the >>> ?mousewhithin? message combined with the mouseline() function? Awesome! >>> So, for those of you who don?t know, the ?mousewithin? message is sent to a >>> field periodically (5 times a second?) whenever the mouse is inside that >>> field. >>> >>> Then, the mouseline function returns whatever line of that field the mouse >>> is currently hovering over. I am currently using this to warn folks if >>> they have too many characters per line. And that works fine. >>> >>> But to make it more intuitive, I want to somehow hilite or indicate the >>> line that the mouse is over in the field, without disturbing the ability to >>> edit that field (copy, paste, type stuff) with ease. >>> >>> I have tried a few different ways of hiliting the line of the field >>> (selecting it, changing the color of the text of it, etc) but any sort of >>> repeat or recursive structure does not work, as the ?mousewithin? message >>> is simply sent far too often for any ?repeat? or recursion to work. >>> >>> Does anyone have any other ideas for highlighting a line in a field that >>> might work under these conditions? >> >> Mark, >> >> Have you tried setting the backgroundColor of the line, something like this: >> >> local sCurrLine >> >> on mouseWithin >> put the mouseline into tThisLine >> if tThisLine <> sCurrLine then >> set the backgroundColor of line 1 to -1 of me to empty >> set the backgroundColor of tThisLine to (220,220,250) >> put tThisLine into sCurrLine >> end if >> end mouseWithin >> >> on mouseLeave >> set the backgroundColor of line 1 to -1 of me to empty >> end mouseLeave >> >> It seemed to work okay here on LC 7.1.2. >> >> Devin >> >> Devin Asay >> Office of Digital Humanities >> Brigham Young University > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
