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From: neves@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (David Neves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Making areas of field text clickable?
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Date: 14 Feb 90 20:17:39 GMT
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In article <13831@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>
>That's the way, and although it's complicated, you don't need to
>resort to an XCMD to deal with it.  Put a mouseUp handler into the
>field script.  When activated, it should unlock the field, click twice
>at the clickLoc, read the selectedText and/or the selectedChunk, lock
>the field again, then process the read information.  You needn't worry
>at all about the position of carriage returns in the field's text, nor
>of the text's size and attributes.
Yes!  I had forgotten that selectedchunk will return the loction of
the click.  Since I want phrases to be clickable I would have to lock
the screen so that the first word selection doesn't show up.  Unfortunately
Supercard has another bug where the screen shows selections even when
locked.  Maybe its time to go to Hypercard!
-Thanks again, david
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