How to find link under cursor in field

[Sjatplat]

Hi there

I have a editable field where the user can input links at the cursor position.
I want to control the field so that a link will be hilited when the cursor enters it.

Something like the mousechunk - but using the cursor position.

Is there a solution to this?

Sjat

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Read up on the "mouseText" function in the dictionary. It also handles grouped text.

Craig Newman

[Sjatplat]

Thank you,

but I know about mouseText and mouseChunk - what I'm after is something that can give me the word or hyperlink where the text insertion point is (text cursor).

Sjat

[dunbarx]

I am old.

I suspect some of the whippersnappers around here will come up with the right answer to this question. Anyway, this horrible kluge might be what you need. If you have some text in a field, some of which is grouped and some not, set the cursor wherever you like. Now click in a button that has this in its script:

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on mouseup
   click at the selectedLoc
   answer the clickText
end mouseup

Ugh. But works.

Craig Newman

[Sjatplat]

Oh Yes!

That works absolutely fine.


Thanks a lot!

Sjat

[jmburnod]

Hi,
Here is a stack with an other way to do that.
It return the text around the insertion point and if it is a link or not

Best regards
Jean-Marc