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clickText

the clickText

Value returned: text string equal to the word the user clicked or the longest contiguous string of characters with the text style Group around the character that the user clicked

The text style Group allows the clickText to extend beyond word boundaries.

Examples

put the clickText into theTextClicked

get the clickText

if it is not empty then go card it

Demo Script

on clickDemo

  toggleActiveText true -- make sure grouped text is visible

  answer "Click any text in the Demo Script." & return & ¬

  "Click text with the gray underline (grouped text) to get phrases."

  wait until the mouseClick

  get the clickText

  select the clickChunk

  wait 1 second

  answer "The text that you clicked was  “" & it & "”."

end clickDemo

clickText

Examples

Demo Script

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