It looks like something is wrong with the way MetaCard is capturing the
htmlText of your original field. You should probably submit this as a bug
report. You could probably work around it by setting the htmlText of the
field directly instead of setting the textColor.
As an aside, your code could be a lot simpler, although it won't affect the
outcome. To set selected text the way you want, all you need is:
on mouseUp
set the textcolor of the selectedChunk to "blue"
set the textstyle of the selectedChunk to "bold,group"
end mouseUp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 4:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: HTML text
>
>
> Well here I am again, not a clue as to what is happening.
> Sorry this is so
> verbose but I want to provide enough information that this
> can be solved.
>
> I want to create files which have bold, group, blue text
> which can be used as
> hypertext. I enter the text into a field and then select the
> text I want to
> appear as hypertext and then click the button with the
> following script.
>
> Hypertext button:
> on mouseUp
> global L, S
> get the selectedtext of cd field "textcontent"
> put word 2 of the selectedchunk into S
> put word 4 of the selectedchunk into L
> set the textcolor of char S to L of cd field "textcontent" to "blue"
> set the textstyle of char S to L of cd field "textcontent"
> to "bold,group"
> end mouseUp
>
> The text is set to bold,group,blue. Once I have all the
> hypertext created I
> then save this file with the following script.
>
> save the HTML file:
> on mouseUp
> global thefilename
> open file thefilename
> write the htmltext of cd field "title" & "�" to file
> thefilename -- no Htxt
> actually in this field
> write the htmlText of cd field "textcontent" & "�" to file
> thefilename --
> this is the Htxt field
> write the htmlText of cd field "links" & "�" to file
> thefilename -- no
> Htxt actually in this field
> write the htmlText of cd field "images" to file
> thefilename -- no Htxt
> actually in this field
> close file thefilename
> end mouseUp
>
> Then in another stack I have a list of these files and the
> user can click on a
> file name and the file is loaded into a field. The idea is
> they will see the
> bold,blue txt and when they click on it the field script will
> process it and do
> something.
> Load an HTML file:
> on mouseUp
> global thefilename
> set itemdel to "�"
> open file thefilename
> read from file thefilename until eof
> close file thefilename
> set the htmlText of cd field "title" to item 1 of it
> set the htmlText of cd field "textcontent" to item 2 of it
> set the htmlText of cd field "links" to item 3 of it
> set the htmlText of cd field "images" to item 4 of it
> end mouseUp
>
> Now here's the deal, the hypertext is all screwed up. If the
> hypertexted word
> or phrase is the only one in a line it's OK. Like this:
> <B><GROUP><FONT color="#0000FF">yellow curve on
> graph</FONT></B></GROUP>
> If two or more hypertexted words or phrases appear in the
> same line then the
> HTML tags are incorectly located, like this:
> <B><GROUP><FONT color="#0000FF">neutrophils</FONT></B></GROUP>,
> <B><GROUP></FONT><FONT>eosinophils</B></GROUP>
>
> Note where the second </FONT> occurs. Can anyone suggest how
> I can fix this?
> This isn't a bug is it? I'm using MC 2.2.5 on a Mac OS 8.5
>
> Thanks
> Rick
>
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