[Newbies] Using text morph to save characters

[Steve Thomas]

Yes we need a way to append in Etoys.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> The new characters are inserted before the current cursor position. So if
> the cursor is "1" then the new characters are inserted before the text. Now
> if the cursor is the same as the count of characters, they are inserted
> before the last character. You can verify that by "clearing" the Text to
> e.g. "X".
>
> I'm not really sure what the rationale for this behavior is. I was
> surprised. Asking on the Squeakland list is a good idea for Etoys issues
> like this.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 26.04.2011, at 14:26, michael rice wrote:
>
> SorryI wasn't more explicit.
>
> I'm generating a(s) and b(s). If I initially generate two a(s) in a row,
> and then a b, the b gets put between the two a(s), not at either end of the
> string. Likewise, if I initially generate two b(s) in a row, and then an a,
> the a gets inserted between the two b(s), not at either end of the string,
> as would be expected.
>
> Michael
>
> --- On *Tue, 4/26/11, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> Subject: Re: [Newbies] Using text morph to save characters
> To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about
> Squeak." <beginners at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 6:24 AM
>
> On 24.04.2011, at 17:53, michael rice wrote:
>
> > This may not be an appropriate way to save characters in the order they
> are generated. This isn't working. Perhaps there's a better way?
> >
> > Two scripts:
> > (1) clear1: empties out a TextMorph
> > (2) addChar: inserts an 'a' or a 'b' at cursor position. Advances cursor
> position.
> >
> > Michael
>
> What exactly is "not working"?
>
> - Bert -
>
>
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