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From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Bug in clickText in HC 2.0
Message-ID: <47265@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 90 16:45:14 GMT
References: <2603@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <2603@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> np@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nigel Perry) writes:
>
>The clickText (and related functions) in HC 2.0 seem to report the
>WRONG answer if you click to far to the right of a character.
>I discovered this when working with a font with wide (VERY) characters,
>clickText kept returning the space AFTER the clicked character.
>Thinking my font made be screwy (I wrote it) I tried the following
>in Palantino 12: "a w m i", sure enough if you click in the right
>half of the "w" or "m" clickText returns a space!!! System config:
>Mac+ 2.5Mb, 6.0.7, MF, HC2.0, Suitcase, various inits. Is this a real
>bug, is there a workaround? Thanks in advance.

This is a feature of TextEdit.  Specifically, HyperCard calls the TextEdit
routine TEGetOffset to find out which character you clicked, and when you
click on the right half of a character, it returns the next character.

We're still looking for a good workaround.

Kevin Calhoun
HyperCard Team
Apple Computer, Inc.

Disclaimer:  I'm not a spokeshuman for Apple.