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So . . . it is the time of year when I torture people with forcing then to make kinky "typewriters"
in dead languages in Livecode . . .
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And I ended up getting what I deserved: a big mess to do with the FORWARD Delete key:
- My pupil got a bit stuck here, so I tried this:
But I end up getting an odd char overlaying the text that should be deleted:
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Richmond.

I had "123456789" in a feld. I did: No overlay, just a replacement.

Craig

No overlay, just a replacement.

That's groovy:

BUT, what I need is the forward delete function at a cursor insertion
rather than a named char.

Hi Richmond,

you could use -> the selectedchunk and check its value.

Result with NO text selected in a field: char 2 to 1 of field 1 -> word 2 > word 4!
Means you have to delete char 2 of that field in this case.

With selected text: char 1 to 8 of field 1
You decide what to delete in this case.

If there is NO insertion point in any field, the selectedchunk will return EMPTY.

Hope I understood your problem correctly.


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Klaus

I had a fantasy that went like this:

[pseudocode]
I also had a fairly bad afternoon snooze dream where I chopped a string at a certain point, deleted the first
char of the second string and then recombined them . . .
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That's how I do that sort of thing in BBC BASIC from 1981.

What is mind-blowing is that I learnt how to do that, late, in 1988: AND I still remember
how to do it.

@Klaus.

The issue, I thought, was that Richmond was getting some sort of weird overlay, not that he couldn't identify the chunk of interest.

@Richmond.

Are you pointing out that small blotch that lies over the second to last char in the example you posted? That this blotch has plopped down over an existing char instead of replacing it?

Craig

Hi Craig,

yes, but he also wrote:

BUT, what I need is the forward delete function at a cursor insertion rather than a named char.

So I was wondering why Richmond tried to REPLACE a character in that case!? OK, it is Richmond...


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Klaus

I did not try to REPLACE a char.

what I did try to do was implement Forward Delete programmatically, so an end-user,
clicking on a button could delete a char in a line of text directly ahead of the insertion point.
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But 0x7F throws a bluey.

And LiveCode seems unable to do this sort of thing:
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https://www.aivosto.com/articles/contro ... lass=Print

OK, it is Richmond

Ah. Of course.

Craig

Richmond.

Can't you just: Craig

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:33 pm

I did not try to REPLACE a char.

Sorry, my fault, did not know the "background" of that action.

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:39 pm

Richmond.
Can't you just:

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on rawkeyDown tKey
   if tKey = 65535 then delete char word 2 of the selectedChunk + 1 of fld 1
end rawkeyDown

Craig

Not really:
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With the cursor inserted just before the red char it should delete the red char,
but the blue one is deleted instead.

These:
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Throw blueys (as you can see).

word 1 of the selectedchunk = CHAR!
See my first posting.

Will work with parens:

...
delete char (word 2 of the selectedchunk) of fld "fWriter"
...

Mucking Fagic!

Now, Please, explain the underlying logic in that statement:
Why should the char directly in front of the cursor be be described as "word 2 of the selectedChunk"
(especially as nothing is selected)?