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From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Getting location of characters in a field
Message-ID: <525@uva.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 15:07:18 GMT
References: <589@oops.cme-durer.ARPA>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <589@oops.cme-durer.ARPA> ressler@cme-durer.ARPA (weirdo) writes:
>Is it possible to make a button travel along with the text, in a field.
>i.e. to create an anchored button which moves say on top of an asterisk 
>which indicates a link to another card.   
I believe what you're looking for are 'sticky buttons', the promised future
to true HyperMedia.

The best way I've found yet to implement this was without buttons at all.
I based my work on the scrips in the HyperDeveloper 1.1 stack.  The basic
idea is to have the mouseUp handler in the background check if there is
a selection.  If so, then check for the key--an '*' after the word in your
case, bullets surrounding the word in mine.  If found, go to card named
theSelection.

It sounds a bit sloppy and slow, but I was pleasantly surprised how well it
worked, even on my SE.

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
(oops, that's rather flakey right now: use borton%uva@hasara5.bitnet)
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS