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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Making areas of field text clickable?
Message-ID: <10266@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 16 Feb 90 00:06:39 GMT
References: <3811@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <3811@accuvax.nwu.edu> neves@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (David Neves)
writes:
>I have many field texts.  I want to make most of the text in these
>fields sensitive to clicks.  The 2 ways of doing this are:
>
>1.  Have the field (on mousedown or mouseup) figure out what text the user has
>clicked on.  This gets messy because the only RETURNs in the fields
>are between paragraphs and the font is variable width.  To do this one
>would have to write an XCMD that used the character width information
>and a good guess as to the word wrap routine that Hypercard (in my
>case, Supercard) was using.  

No, you can use a trick I've used to good effect.  On a click in a
locked text field, unlock the field, and do two clicks yourself with
the click command.  This will select whatever word of text was clicked
on, and you can use "the selection" and the related functions to figure
things out.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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