Marni:
It looks like it is a fault of 2.2.5 as I just downloaded 2.3A5 and there
is no screwup. Thanks for the suggestions re simplification of the code. I'll
use it.
Thanks again
Rick
Marni Centor wrote:
> 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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