Link text but like the Rev docs

[Barry Levine]

Maybe this will be useful. The Rev docs give an example of how to have 
link text automatically highlight yellow when the mouse passes over it 
(like the Rev online docs). However, only passing mention of how to 
make it not -look- like "link text" is given; the reference says that 
the Property Inspector is used to effect the changes. This is only 
partially correct.

You need to change the "Normal" Link Color to black (or whatever color 
the rest of the text is). This may be done in the Inspector. But you 
also need to script or go to the message box with this command:

set the underlinelinks of this stack to false

Now the link text looks just like the rest of the text in that field. 
The code that would go into the field script which would make the link 
text highlight automatically is as follows:

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local storedHilitedChunk
on mouseMove
  -- first unhighlight the "old" phrase if necessary:
  if storedHilitedChunk is not empty \
      and storedHilitedChunk is not the mouseChunk then
    do "set the backgroundColor of" && \
        storedHilitedChunk && "to empty"
    put empty into storedHilitedChunk
  end if
  -- highlight if the text under the mouse is linked:
  if the mouseChunk is not empty \
      and "link" is in the textStyle of the mouseChunk then
    set the backgroundColor of the mouseChunk to "yellow"
    -- saved for later unhighlighting
    put the mouseChunk into storedHilitedChunk
  end if
  pass mouseMove
end mouseMove
on mouseLeave
  -- unhighlight any currently highlighted text:
  if storedHilitedChunk is not empty then
    do "set the backgroundColor of" && \
        storedHilitedChunk && "to empty"
    put empty into storedHilitedChunk
  end if
  pass mouseLeave
end mouseLeave
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The above script is copied from Jeanne's posting of 9/30/02. Yes; it 
works fine! (and thank you, Jeanne)

Regards,
Barry
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