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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  circling text in a window
Message-ID: <9010201031.AA03137@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 90 10:31:46 GMT
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> I would like to take a stab at making a word search X program (you
> know that game you search thru the matrix of letters to find words
> and then circle them).

Not to rain on your parade, but in the lawsuit-happy world down there
this could open you up to a look-and-feel suit from one of the
word-game magazine companies.  I recall seeing a word-search game in a
magazine where the instructions (as if they were needed!) made quite a
point of "draw a line through the word, *do not* circle it".  What a
crazy world we live in.

> Well I have to word search part and I would like to get any hints on
> how to be able to circle the words after the matrix has been put in a
> window.  Is it possible to say set the beginning and end points
> (beginning and end of the word), check it to see if it is in the
> list, and then draw a circle around the beginning and end points?

Sure.  Just draw two lines and two semicircles...the only even slightly
difficult part is placing them, and that is hardly a mindbender.

> Or, do I have to draw a line thru the words instead of a circle (is
> this easier?).

Marginally.  It's one line instead of two lines and two semicircles.

> Or do I have to create several fonts that have normal letters and
> then letters that have lines thru them (potentially a lot of fonts).

Oh ick.  You don't want to do it that way, trust me.

					der Mouse

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