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From: sridhar@hpclada.HP.COM (Sridhar Ramakrishnan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Hypertext Widget?
Message-ID: <3930007@hpclada.HP.COM>
Date: 24 May 89 13:25:45 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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Here is an interesting Windows programming problem that I am trying to solve:

	Suppose you have a text file that contains some cross-reference
	links (such as "See also 2.7", etc), and that the cross-reference
	parts are somehow distinguished from the rest of the text, as
	for example, "^See also 2.7^"; here the '^' delimits the referenced
	text.  

	I would like to be able to read such a file into a (say)
	TextEditWidget (or, StaticTextWidget) buffer, with the referenced
	parts highlighted and the '^' marks deleted.  Further, when the 
	user clicks anywhere in the highlighted text, he is automatically
	positioned at the target reference.

If this sounds almost like a hypertext application, it is!  

Since I have noticed quite an interest in this kind of an application
I will post a summary of all information I get.

Please mail responses to me at (since I am not a regular notes reader)
	sridhar%hpclove@hplabs.hp.com

Thanks.


					Sridhar