On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
> I would like to find a way to hotlink text in a field so that the link
> information (which will be a card to go to and a field to display) is stored
> as part of the htmltext, much as a web browser does. MetaCard strips out most
> html tags that don't have to do with text styling, so my efforts so far aren't
> working. I could keep a duplicate of the htmltext elsewhere for reference, but
> I'd rather not do it that way if I don't have to. A lookup table won't work
> either, for a number of reasons.
>
> I did notice that MC creates a "<GROUP>" tag (which it does retains as part of
> the htmltext) when I enter various test words in an experimental tag, but I'm
> not sure what triggers this tag to be created or whether I could use it for my
>purposes.
>
> Any ideas whether embedded links are possible?
The <group> tag is just the "group" textStyle, commonly used in
HyperCard to bind multiple words so that they're returned together
from the clickText. Doing something like that to bind together words
and then doing a lookup based on that is really your only option.
I've heard of people doing stuff like putting a white-colored
character at the end of a word to simulate embedding hidden tokens,
but that technique seems like it would be very brittle and so I can't
recommend it.
Support for embedding hidden information (like HREFs) in fields is on
the feature-request list, and is currently scheduled for 2.4 (which
unfortunately is only in the design phase at this point because we've
got our hands full with 2.3).
Regards,
Scott
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MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
