Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!englandr
From: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: returning line numbers from fields
Message-ID: <4700@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 3 Dec 88 19:54:18 GMT
References: <4296@umd5.umd.edu> <21506@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <21506@apple.Apple.COM> baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes:
>What I'd really like to do is have a scrolling field I can treat just like
>the fields in the font/da mover, i.e. clicking on a line in the field 
>highlights the line, draging highlights more, and shift-click extends the
>selection. Both line number, and number of lines should be returned

There is such a thing.  It's an XCMD called DoList, by James Paul, which
is included in the stack Developer Stack 1.2, which has all sorts of
other neat goodies.
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                                               - Scott