Hilite List Question

[townsend]

I've got a Text Field that is set for Mutiple Hilites but as soon as I change cards any lines selected or hilited disappear.
So this code saves all the hilited lines to a global variable:

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on closecard
     global saved
     put hilitedline of fld "main.list" into saved
end closecard

Fine. Now I want to restore those selected lines when the card reopens.
You can't select multiple lines the way you would ordinarily select individual lines.

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on opencard
     select the line of fld "main.list" to saved
end opencard

So I tried to iterate through the list of saved lines to restore them one by one.

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on opencard
     put number of items in saved into cnt
     repeat with ii = 1 to cnt
          put item ii of saved into here
          select line here of fld "main.list"
     end repeat
end opencard

The loop works fine, except each subsequent select clears all previously selected lines,
even though the text field remains set as Multi Hilite.

I tried experimenting with the SelectedLines function, but that didn't work.
Nothing much in the Dictionary on this, and I searched the forum too.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[dunbarx]

Hi.

I love custom properties:

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on closeCard
   set the hiliteHistory of fld "yourField" to the hilitedLines of fld "yourField"
end closeCard

on opencard
      set the hilitedLines of fld "yourField" to the hiliteHistory of fld  "yourField"
end opencard

The moral of the story is to read up on the hilitedLines property.

Craig Newman

[Klaus]

Hi all,

globals or custom properties , you can GET and SET the hilitedlines of a (list) field!
So this works:
...
global gSaved
set the hilitedlines of fld "main.list" to gSaved
...

Best

Klaus

[townsend]

Thanks Craig-- Thanks Klaus--

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