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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Interesting problem hiliting text
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.200703.7094@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 20:07:03 GMT
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA
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Interestingly enough it appears that you cannot hilite multiple fields
within TE package windows.  I have an application where I would like
to hilite various words in a body of text based on, let's say a list
of locations and word lengths.

It seems I'll have to go down to the quickdraw level to do this.  Has
anyone tackled this problem before?  You got code sailor boy?  It
seems to be a problem comperable in difficulty to rewriting various
parts of the TE package since I'll hav to calculate regions to
highlite based on font, style, word length and height, etc.

Any guidence from the Mac wizards out there?



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