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Has been confirmed.

Bug ID 13550

Yes, I just confirmed it again, just to be sure. I'll include the recipe here, and file a bug report. In LiveCode 7.0.0, MacBook Pro, MacOS 10.9.4 Create a new main stack Place a field on card 1 Place a button on card 1 In the field type: "I have two sisters." In the button script type: Delete word ...

I worked around the issue by changing "delete word 3" to "put empty into word 3," but I still don't understand how deleting a word removes both preceding and trailng spaces.

I haven't been doing much coding for quite some time, but was just trying to improve on an old stack I'd built, and it appears that LiveCode 7 now removes the spaces when deleting a word in a sentence. Such that in a field "sisters," which contains the expression, "I have two sisters," the command "...

Thank you, sturgis, looks promising. I'll work from that and see how it comes out.

Mark

I'm not sure my coding skills are up to the job of determining which characters are showing in the field as they are scrolled through. Is this something easy enough to calculate and operate on?

Thank you guys so much for checking this out! I can't help but think this is a bug. Not sure what you mean about it having originally been designed this way, sturgis. If you change fonts things get really mixed up. It seems like you ought to be able to hold a paragraph of text and scroll it at virtu...

Thanks for the responses. The behaviors seem very much font-related. Seem like a bug. I wonder if such a thing has been documented in Bugzilla. The formattedwidth varies between 10k and 60k depending on font. Display swings wildly. Not much rhyme nor reason. Sometimes displays a dozen words, sometim...

Hi. I'm encountering an odd situation. I'm placing a paragraph of text into a field with the Don't Wrap checked, and with an hScroll bar. The text is big, 160 pts. I am scrolling the paragraph via script, like a banner, but it's the same result manually. The deal is, after only a couple of sentences...