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From: neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: screen location of text in field?
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Date: 24 Jan 90 20:35:14 GMT
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What is the best way of finding out where some text in a field appears
on the screen -- i.e. its screen rectangle?  The field text is word
wrapped  -- there are no return characters in it.

The only way I could figure out how to do it is to write a function that
starts at the beginning of the field and computes character positions
with word wrap figured in until it gets the the text in question.
Anyone done this?

-Thanks, david

p.s. Earlier I asked about good Hypertalk books.  As other people have
suggested, I went with Apple's HyperCard Script Language Guide.  I
wouldn't recommend it for beginners but it makes an excellent reference
book. 

p.s.s. A second question:
       How can one reference a selected object from the message box?  To
quickly edit the script of any object I would like to mouse it and then
type "edit" in the message box.

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