Beats "looping around» all the text any day! I think I can use this with my students in a couple of months time. For now, I think I have to stick to the more basic tasks of just altering fonts, text size, text color and text styles for single word selections.
Best Regards Tore Nilsen > 31. aug. 2018 kl. 21:31 skrev hh via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > You could try: > > on mouseUp > put the selectedChunk into sc > put word 2 of sc into strt > put word 4 of sc into stp > put fld word 7 of sc into txt > put selectedWords(strt,stp,txt) into fld "out" > end mouseUp > > function selectedWords strt,stp,txt > put the num of words in char 1 to strt of txt into w1 > put the num of words in char 1 to stp of txt into w2 > return w1,w2 -- start and stop > end selectedWords > > Of course you have an uncertainty if your selection > starts or stops within words. > > Similar for truewords ... > > _______________________________________________ > 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
