At 11:29 AM -0600 26/7/1999, Scott Raney wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Dave Cragg wrote:
>
>> Is there a problem about setting the group textStyle from a script? I
>> can set it in combination with another style, e.g. "bold,group", but
>> if I set "group" by itself it doesn't seem to work. I have the same
>> problem when setting it directly or when using the htmlText property.
>> Is there a trick to this?
>
>Not that I know of, and it seems to work fine here (and in fact, the
>MetaCard menus set it this way). Be sure to put "group" in quotes,
>though, since group is a reserved word. Also I recommend setting the
>showGroups property to true to make tracking what is and is not a
>group easier.
> Regards,
> Scott
Thanks Scott.
The problem was that I had unintentionally set the textStyle of the
field itself to "group". Unlike other styles, this has no effect on
the text in the field. (I guess that makes sense.) However, when
setting the textstyle of a chunk of text in such a field to "group"
nothing gets changed. Removing the "group" style from the field
solved my problem.
Happy again.
BTW, I stumbled into this while looking for a way to determine
whether the mouse is over the text in a field (including spaces) and
not over the empty part of the field to the right of the text. My
idea was to use the mouseText function, but this normally returns
empty when over a space between words. Thus the idea to apply the
group style to all the text in the field. It seems to work (now that
I've resolved the style problem), but I was wondering if there was a
more obvious way to do what I want.
Cheers
Dave Cragg
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