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Hello Jaque,
Thanks for your proposal, it's a non-spontaneous idea and interesting, but I cannot use click at that will change the selection. I yet prefere my bad function CharDisplayFieldChunk.
Thanks
jean-marc

hello hh, Before printing I must assume that the text is correctly well done. So before printing I nead to have a field with it's rect is the printing rect. This field must present exactly the printing pages. So I can go from page to page in this field, I can change text in it so that the new pages ...

Sorry, in the function GoToPage, there is no parameter MyMask :

Since my post, I have found a way to go to a page and shorting the height of the field so it's suit to the text: on GoToPage MyField,MyMask,PageToGo set the rect of fld MyField to the defaultRect of fld MyField repeat with ll=1 to -1+PageToGo add line ll of the pageheights of fld MyField to TheScrol...

Is there a function to identify the text appearing in a field after a scroll using the pageHeights ? Hello, Here is my problem: I use a field with fixedLineHeight=false. In this field the text is very long and the user can change the textSize of the words, in different locations. Now to print this ...

Hi Klaus,
Doing so via SHELL is not very fun because of the number and evolution of OS.
I was hoping there is a hiden solution in LC.
Thanks for your quick answer
best regards
jean-marc

The file attributes may be read with "the detailed files". Is there a way to modify these attributes ? I would like to controle permissions and creation dates.

Thanks Jean-Marc for your contribution
I have understood an origine of the problem illustrated there:

thanks Jean-Marc, I use detailed files because I need to known the size of the file and its date creation. Because of your response, I have reported a bug (I don't know if this bug is repaired since Livecode 7 that I use). My bug's report: if a file's name contents an accented char as "é" the detail...

to read the content of a folder, I use "put UrlDecode(the detailed files)". One of the files is named "délai.pdf". With LiveCode 5.5.5, I obtain "délai.pdf"; with LiveCode 7.0.6 I obtain ""de?lai.pdf" (I use Mac OS X 10.10.4). Wath is wrong ? any can help ? thanks