*************** Well, I think it's a challenge anyway. I have a field with text from a story. It's just basic text split into one or more paragraphs. I need to come up with a way to create what we call a reading guide, which would basically consist of a rectangular box that follows the mouse pointer up and down will inside of the text field. The trick is that the box must "snap" into place so to speak, so that the current line of text is vertically centered within the box. Students will be reading the text and the box cannot wander if the mouse pointer is not exactly on the line of text. I am using fixedLineHeight for the text field, and I think that will come into play somewhere (the distance to move the box up and down?). What I'm not sure of is which messages I need to handle to create this kind of behavior.
Does anyone have any ideas? Have I even made sense? I can try again to explain it if necessary. *************** Hi Chris As long as it's not a scrolling field then you should be able to do something like this: constant kLeft = the left of your box, kRight = the right of your box put (item 2 of the mouseLoc - the top of fld 1) div the lineHeight of fld 1 into tTop set the rect of grc "box" to kLeft,tTop,kRight,tTop+the lineHeight of fld 1 Should work ... Cheers Monte _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
