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Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:37 pm**

Hi Folks,

I can't work out what I'm doing wrong here.

set the textFont of the selectedChunk of fld "myField" to "Arial"

I have a font menu and when the user selects some text in field "myField" I want them to be able to change the font.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Jim

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:51 pm**

Try this:

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on menuPick pFontName
  if the focusedObject is the long ID of field "MyField" then
    set the textFont of the selection to pFontName
  end if
end menuPick

The 'selectedChunk' property can be a little annoying to work with, as the engine may attempt to 'interpret' it before using it - and then it thinks it has ended up with the following instruction:

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set the textFont of "whatever the selected text is" to "Arial"

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:57 pm**

Blimey, it works perfectly!

Thanks so much.

Jim

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