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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, net.god {retired})
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Line number of field line that has insertion point in it?
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Date: 19 Mar 91 19:38:15 GMT
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sm196103@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky) writes:

>I am at my wits end to try and find a way to get the field line # which has
>the insertion point in it returned.

>I need either a nice code to accomplish this or a function like:
>InsertionLine

Close. Under HC 2.0 (I'm not sure about 1.x) you can use clickline to find
out where the cursor is:

on idle
 put the clickline into msg
 pass idle
end idle 

in the stack script will show you how it works.

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