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@Craig, as i keep mentioning I am not using list fields. They behave quite differently to a locked text field (which behaves differently to an unlocked text field.) But thanks for trying to help. @jacque, yes you hit the nail on the head re the complete lack of mouse messages once a user begins a se...

The mouseline function might be of interest if I was concerned only with text lines but I am not. Given a line in this context is actually a paragraph and a paragraph may consist of many sentences a user may want to begin (or end) their selection within a line, say sentence three, in which case I do...

Well I guess in the context of my example (going from the left field to the right) I am selecting the text below the start point of the drag to above the end point in the right hand field.
Thanks Craig, appreciate the input.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. Two things. 1. This is an exercise in being able to select text by beginning in one field and ending the selection in the second field. I want the text to remain as is in both fields. Your script is also about putting lines from field 1 to field 2. 2. The fields are normal te...

I am trying to work out whether it is possible to begin a text selection in one field and continue it to a second field both programatically as well as visually. The text fields are both locked and non scrollable (contents will always fit fully within) and thus allow text selection and hiliting. The...

Shouldn't be ?

Trevor will you be updating SQLYoga to work with the new SQLITE binary (and thus changed revDB call to access)?

To scroll a field so that a desired line (line linenum) sits at the top of the field I use the following: set the lockscreen to true --scroll section to line linenum where "linenum is the number of the line --to sit at the top of the field select line -1 of field "TextToScroll" select line linenum o...

These days I tend to look for apps that work both on the Mac as well as the iPad. I find for anything other than development or heavy lifting I tend to use my iPad. In this vein I have started using iDraw from Indeeo http://www.indeeo.com as I can play with ideas on the ipad and then develop them on...

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Yes there is a massive slowness in text style functions, well specifically in setting the htmltext and modifying text styles. The slowdown first appeared in LC 6.x compared to LC5.5 but with the release of LC 7 has taken on a whole new scale. There is a bug report http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug....

man I hate being called away while posting a reply. nice long body of text just gone as my credentials seemed to expire. Oh well. I have done more work and can report there is definitely something weird with the script debugger. Have no idea how to make it replicable without submitting my project (a...

Actually is the xml library working? I am tracing my errors back to a call to "revCreateXMLtree" trying to debug this as I trace (either into or over) I get ejected from the handler, the script and back into the calling script which promptly errors out as the script with the xml code has not complet...

I am not sure about that. The global declaration is one of four global declarations (it was the third). I am wondering if it is related to the XML/zip errors I am getting (not specific but problematic) as the variable is a value I take from a zipped XML file (a file reference, part of an ePub). This...

my app uses the xml and zip libraries to unpack and read epubs. In order to actually read the text correctly I have, at the suggestion of somewhere in the list) used the uniencode/decode construction as in... --a text file so get its contents revZipExtractItemToVariable pArchive, sOPS & aMan[sNItemR...