On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 01:43:21 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's one we've all faced, and I'm curious how others deal with it:
>
> You have a field in which some of the text has a grouped text style
> applied and when the user clicks it takes them to another destination
> (standard hot text, as with a web browser).
>
> What method do you prefer to maintain an association between a specific
> chunk and the destination descriptor associated with clicking on it?
>
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> ToolBook has probably the best solution for this: grouped text is
> treated as a discrete object, in that it has its own properties and
> script. Bound directly to the group, it is not reliant on position or
> spelling.
You can do this in Authorware too, not to mention in HTML. :-) I agree that
it would be very nice to be able to do it in MetaCard.
> Of course I'd love to see that in MC in the future, but given what we
> have in MC today how do you folks prefer to handle this?
I've used the clickText method with a lookup table quite successfully, but I
don't recall having a situation where I needed the same text to link to
different locations in different places. If I needed to, I guess I would
work around it using a check of custom properties for exceptions.
Marni
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