How to Set the Letter in AZTab Protos

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How to Set the Letter in AZTab Protos (3/26/96)

Q: How do I programmatically select the letter in protoAZTabs or protoAZVertTabs?

A: You can use the SetLetter method of the AZTab protos:

protoAZTabs.SetLetter(newLetter, NIL)

Set the tab to the character specified by newLetter and update the hiliting. Note that this method does not send a pickLetterScript message.

 Example:
// set myProtoAZTabs to the letter "C"
myProtoAZTabs:SetLetter($c, nil) ;

protoAZVertTabs.SetLetter...
see protoAZTabs.SetLetter