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- From: km2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth E. Mohnkern)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: Hi-liting a locked field
- Message-ID: <EfBpPiK00iVgM1m3wl@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 07:57:02 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.EfBpPiK00iVgM1m3wl
- Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 29
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec22.144326.5978@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Excerpts from Mark H. Nodine@lcs.mit.e:
- > 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?
- >
- > 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
- >
- > (You can actually compute how many lines to select:
- >
- > select line 1 to (the number of lines of cd fld chalkb) of cd fld chalkb
- >
- > but the code I gave will work faster.)
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- An easier way out is to just say:
- select text of cd fld chalkb
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- ken
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