>Hi Peter,
>Try the mouseCharChunk - in theory there's room for it to not work every
>time, but in practical terms it'll probably do the job consistently and
>well. The mouseCharChunk will tell you what char of a word has the mouse
>hovering over it at a given moment. With execution speeds being what
>they are, it'll probably work fine.
Hi Phil
Thanks for the tip - that's sorted out my problem of detecting the
actual character clicked on.
Any ideas for the scrolling/positioning problem?
> Also, once I've detected a hot word, I need to jump to another line
> within the field. How do I reliably reposition a field with variable
> height lines on a line boundary? I tried adding the textHeight of
> all lines from top to required line, multiplying the total by 4/3 and
> then setting the vScroll accordingly. Unfortunately, this isn't
> reliable, especially if there is a blank line as this returns an
> empty textHeight.
Thanks again,
Best regards
Peter
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