Dan and Mark -- thank you so much. The selectionChanged was exactly what I needed, but with the backgroundColor changed to yellow, not the foregroundColor (which makes the text yellow, not the background).
On 3/20/06 4:16 PM, "Mark Talluto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2006, at 1:43 PM Mar 20, 2006, Robert E. Ball wrote: > >> I want the user of my program to be able to hilite portions of a >> text field on a given card (similar to using a yellow hilite pen on >> a book page -- I have set hiliteColor to yellow) and then to have >> the hilited text show up when the user returns to the card. >> >> When I first double click on a word in a field, the selected word's >> backgroundColor turns yellow, as it should. However, when I double >> click on another word in the field, the yellow backgroundColor of >> the previously selected word is removed and the backgroundColor of >> the second selected word is yellow. I understand why this works -- >> a new word has been selected. However, is it possible to write a >> script to save the yellow backgroundColor of all selected words. In >> other words, I would like my cards to look just like the page of a >> book that has hilited text. > > There probably is a few ways this can be done. The first thing I > would try is to store the selectedChunk information everytime there > is a mouseUp. You could store this in a variable or a custom property. > > A quick and dirty solution would be the following: > > on selectionChanged > put the selectedChunk > set the foreGroundColor of the selectedChunk to 255,0,0 > end selectionChanged > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- Robert E. Ball, PhD Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
