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From: Susan.A.Tenney@dartmouth.edu (Susan A. Tenney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Line number of field line that has insertion point in it?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.134659.24049@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 13:46:59 GMT
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In article <50457@apple.Apple.COM>
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, net.god {retired}) writes:

> 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.

I think it's selectedLine, not clickLine, that's needed.  clickLine
identifies the most recently clicked line in a *locked* field, whereas
selectedLine gives the line containing the current selection (of which
an insertion point is a special case). And it works in HyperCard 1.2.x.

Susan Tenney
Dartmouth College Computing Services