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- From: nodine@lcs.mit.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: Hi-liting a locked field
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.144326.5978@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:43:26 GMT
- References: <babb-161292152533@larc.sdsu.edu>
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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- In article <babb-161292152533@larc.sdsu.edu>, babb@sciences.sdsu.edu (J. Babb) writes:
- |> When I "select cd fld chalkb" from a script, I get marching ants
- |> (and the field tool goes active!!), but not selection like hitting the Tab
- |> key will give me.
- |> Anybody know a workaround or XCMD?
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- HyperCard has very obediently selected the field for you. Oh,
- you wanted to select the _contents_ of the field? Try this:
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- select line 1 to 32000 of cd fld chalkb
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- (You can actually compute how many lines to select:
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- select line 1 to (the number of lines of cd fld chalkb) of cd fld chalkb
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- but the code I gave will work faster.)
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- --Mark
-