Forums Scripts & Popups Editbox help

Basically what I'm looking for help to do is to insert some text in an editbox when a button is clicked. I've gotten the button click down but I'm coming up at dead ends when I try to find a way to reference where the prompt currently is in the editbox.

For example say this is in the editbox:

You are a |friend.

(the pipe "|" is referrencing where the prompt is when the button is pushed)

And I added a button that would add a predefined text say, "good" so when it is pushed the text in the editbox now says:

You are a goodfriend.

(The space between good and friend would be added next by the user after pushing the button.)

How would I go about doing this?
Hope I've been clear and any help would be appreciated.

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Sorry but, there is no resource in mirc to make clear where the cursor inside the editbox line is at.

On another note, how did you detect a keypress? (ignore this question if you are refering to a custom window)

try my crude attempt:
i used $did().selend to get cursor pos





anyways, i got a question of my own: how do i get what LINE the cursor is in, in a multiline editbox?

edit: Fixed so doesnt insert '0' when cursor is at the end or beggining

Now that i read the original post carefully, I realise he just might be talking about editboxes inside forms/dialogs since he actually said button clicks (i miss read that as keypress's). My refrence to no mirc resource was in refrence to the /EDITBOX command and $EDITBOX() identifier editbox's ie a channel/pm/window text box.

so mr pooh-ba.. ya gots any idea on how i could get the line number the cursor is at in a multiline editbox ( an edit box with multi and return styles set)? i wanna use it to make sumthin like a text editor, and i wanna be able to show the line number. thnx in advance

$cursor(name,id)

This should work for editboxes in which you have no empty lines as $didtok only returns up until the first empty line, and also the first ~ 950 characters. So it's not suitable for editboxes containing large amounts of text



$_cursor(name,id)

This should work for all editboxes

Thanks guys for your help. I was talking about a dialog for a custom window and arc's snippet worked perfectly but thank you Sigh for posting yours too.