The hilited line

[RossG]

I have three scrolling fields.

When I click on a line in field 1 then on
a line in field 2 the line in field 1 remains
hilited which seems to cause some confusion
in the code to put the hilited line into another
field.

The Dictionary says that the hilitedLine is a
comma-delimited list of numbers so I've tried
some code to put "" or "empty" into it to
turn off the hilite of field 1 but so far no
acceptable solution.

Suggestions welcome.

[[-hh]]

It's a property, so this should work:

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set hilitedLines of fld 1 to empty

[RossG]

Thanks hh. That works.

[dunbarx]

What Hermann said.

But he also said something else, perhaps a little too offhandedly.

You tried to use the "hilitedLine " as a container when you tried to put empty into it. Rather, It is a property, and you must "set" it to empty..

Craig Newman

[RossG]

Yes, and to compound my error I used
"hilitedLine" rather that "hilitedLines"!

[jacque]

Since the hilitedline is one or more integers, it is typical to set it to zero, though empty works.

"Hilitedline" and "hilitedlines" can be used interchangeably, BTW, so no error Hermann.

[dunbarx]

Jacque.

Herman does not make errors. Nor did Ross, as you said.. I do.

Craig

[[-hh]]

Herman does not make errors. Nor did Ross, as you said.. I do.

Yes, my highly regarded teacher. But the only error I know is the missing last "n" in "Herman"

[dunbarx]

Hermann.

See? I told you. I am error prone.

Craig

[jacque]

The thing about German is that if a word isn't long enough, they just add more letters or whole words. The thing about American English is that they subtract letters and words.

[dunbarx]

We could not play Scrabble at all if it were not so.

[RossG]

One word of German that stuck in my mind
from an attempt to learn another language
was "strassenbarnhaltensteller" (the spelling
is just from memory and is no doubt wrong)
but it means "tram stop".

[mwieder]

[RossG]

Translation please.

Does it mean "Vacuum Cleaners sold here"?

[Klaus]

Does it mean "Vacuum Cleaners sold here"?

No!