How to append into field

Question

How can I append a text into a text field. I tried something like:

on mouseUp
    append "Once again" into "field display"
end mouseUp

Where "display" is a Scrolling field.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try:

Put "hello" after field "display"

Answer 2

If you want to append to a specific line, and since you have a scrolling field this may be what you really asked for:

put space & "Hello World" after line 3 of fld "yourScrollingField".

Know also that you could:

put space & "Hello World" after word 3 of line 3 of fld "yourScrollingField".

Check out all three chunk keywords, "before", "into" and "after" in the dictionary. Chunk expressions permit exquisite control of text down to the character level.

Answer 3

Or...

  put cr & "This is a new line of text." after field "display"

Why?

"after" is quite literal, equal in effect to "&".