sm196103@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky) (03/20/91)
I am at my wits end to try and find a way to get the field line # which has the insertion point in it returned. I need this so that I can make a tabkey make the insertion point go to the same line in a sister field on the same card. I need either a nice code to accomplish this or a function like: InsertionLine Which would return the line number where the insertion point is. Anybody have any ideas? This is sorta urgent. Thanx a bunch in advance, Scott -- Scott Cherkofsky "The experience of going through sm196103@seas.GWU.edu life may be intended as a warning Mechanical Engineering student not to do it again." Executive Office of the President -- Ashleigh Brilliant
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, net.god {retired}) (03/20/91)
sm196103@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky) writes: >I am at my wits end to try and find a way to get the field line # which has >the insertion point in it returned. >I need either a nice code to accomplish this or a function like: >InsertionLine Close. Under HC 2.0 (I'm not sure about 1.x) you can use clickline to find out where the cursor is: on idle put the clickline into msg pass idle end idle in the stack script will show you how it works. -- Chuq Von Rospach >=< chuq@apple.com >=< GEnie: CHUQ >=< AppleLink: CHUQ SFWA Nebula Awards Reports Editor =+= Editor, OtherRealms Book Reviewer, Amazing Stories ---@--- #include <standard/disclaimer.h> Recommended reading: BONE DANCE by Emma Bull; BLIND JUSTICE by S.N. Lewitt; SCIENCE FICTION IN THE REAL WORLD by Norman Spinrad
Susan.A.Tenney@dartmouth.edu (Susan A. Tenney) (03/20/91)
In article <50457@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, net.god {retired}) writes: > Close. Under HC 2.0 (I'm not sure about 1.x) you can use clickline to find > out where the cursor is: > > on idle > put the clickline into msg > pass idle > end idle > > in the stack script will show you how it works. I think it's selectedLine, not clickLine, that's needed. clickLine identifies the most recently clicked line in a *locked* field, whereas selectedLine gives the line containing the current selection (of which an insertion point is a special case). And it works in HyperCard 1.2.x. Susan Tenney Dartmouth College Computing Services