> My question still remains: what's a good way to highlight a 
> chunk of text in a text member <snip>

Just a quick idea but have you considered using a QuickDraw shape (drawn
from the tool palette) behind your text display as a highlight mechanism?
You could hide the QD sprite (or sprites) off-screen then pop them into
place when and where needed based on the location information of the text
chunk. This idea has issues, mostly surrounding how many QD sprites you'd
need, especially if you allow arbitrary multi-line selection (you'd need two
QD sprites to handle a selection that spans two lines, what if the selection
spans five lines? or six? or three? or...?).

Just a thought in case it helps.

Cheers,
Tom Higgins
Product Specialist - Director Team
Macromedia

...
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to 
http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi  To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]  (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping 
with programming Lingo.  Thanks!]

Reply via email to