selectedObject lines or no lines?

hamlynart · Post by **hamlynart** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:53 am

Hi again,

any thoughts about this little conundrum:

on mouseUp
   answer the number of lines in the selectedObject
   answer the selectedObject
end mouseUp

if 3 fields are selected the first dialog says "1" but the second dialog shows each one on a new line (as indicated in the documentation)??

Jim H

jmburnod · Post by **jmburnod** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:10 am

Hi Jim,

No problem with the function selectedobject but i think it return empty because
you make it empty when you set the tool to browse to send a mouseup.

If you place an handler in the card script and you call it by the message box
the handler work

best

Jean-Marc

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:44 am

Hi Jim,

I have no idea why this does not work, but I just tested a bit and foud this workaround (two buttons selected):
...
put the selectedobjects into tSelObj
put the num of lines OF the selectedobjects
## Got 0!!???

answer the num of lines of tSelObj
## I got "2"
...

Best

Klaus

hamlynart · Post by **hamlynart** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:48 am

The reason I need the script to be in a button is because I'm making a plugin. At the moment it works fine for single objects but I need it to cycle through ALL the selected objects.

I had the hope that this would work:

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on mouseUp
   repeat with x=1 to the number of lines in the selectedObject
      set the text of (line x of the selectedObject) to fld "Replacement"
   end repeat
end mouseUp

But because the lines of the selected object are not recognised it doesn't work?

Jim H

hamlynart · Post by **hamlynart** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:49 am

Hi Klaus,

That makes a lot of sense - I'll try it out.

Thanks

Jim

hamlynart · Post by **hamlynart** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:18 am

it works!!

on mouseUp
put the selectedObject into tSelObj
repeat with x=1 to the number of lines in tSelObj
set the text of (line x of tSelObj) to fld "Replacement"
end repeat
end mouseUp

Thanks again

Jim H