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From: bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypertalk questions for gurus...
Message-ID: <1170004@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 91 00:02:16 GMT
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> Another solution that I have used in the past is to ignore Hypercard's
> highlighting ability and mark the selection by a different mechanism.
> Specifically, what I did was to start each line with a space and use the
> bullet character (option-8) in character 1 to indicate the selection.
> So a selection looks something like
> 
>    set char 1 to 1 of line selLine to " "
>    set char 1 to 1 of line newLine to "<bullet-character>"
>    set selLine to newLine
> 
> The advantages of this are that
>   (1) it is quick,
>   (2) it works even in a scrolling field, and
>   (3) the field maintains a permanent record of what is selected.
> 
>         --Mark

Another variation that might help would be to Bold the selected
text (only in 2.x).

Scott Bayes