Hi,
First of all, I wonder why one would set the textStyle of an entire
field to link? I would handle the mouseUp message instead. This may
be my own personal view, but it is easier because you can modify a
smaller amount of properties to make it work, it also gives you more
freedom to alter something afterwards.
The docs say about linkClicked: "Sent when the user clicks grouped
text." If you set the style of a field to "bold" and enter text, the
text looks bold, but it isn't. If you request for its style by
entering "put the textStyle of char 1 of fld 1" in the message box,
you should get an empty value returned.
When you click on a text, Revolution doesn't check the textStyle of
the field but the textStyle of the text. Since the textStyle is
empty, the linkClicked message is not sent.
I understand that everybody who doesn't agree will say it is far-
fetched, but I think this is a valid explantion and thus I doubt this
is a bug. Then again, I probably wouldn't mind if this behaviour were
changed, because I won't set the textStyle of a field to link anyway.
Best regards,
Mark
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-------Original Message------- From: Timothy Miller Date:
11/02/06 21:42:05 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Link text
style -- bug or feature ? This arises from a question I asked on
the forum, then solved on my own, by trial and error. If I set
the textstyle of a field to "link," by script or manually, text
entered into that field looks like a link. It's blue and
underlined. However, it doesn't act like a link. When clicked it
sends a mouseUp, not a linkClicked. If I select the text, the
"text" menu has a checkmark by "Plain," not by "Link" Maybe it's
a bug. If not, I don't understand the point of being able to set
the textstyle of a field to "link" and make the text look
misleadingly like a link, if it's not a link. The field inspector
is ambiguous in this regard. The button that sets the style to
"link" is marked with a "G" presumably for group. The tool tip
says "Link text" That's ambiguous, too. Does it mean "set the
style of text in this field to 'link'"? or does it mean "Link the
text in this field"? Maybe linking in this way affects the
mousechunk function, and is intended for use with a mouseUp, not
with a linkClicked. I haven't investigated that possibility yet.
The user dictionary doesn't really settle the matter either. As
things stand, it seems that "link" is a textStyle in one context
-- if you select text and set the style of the text to link, but
not in another -- if you set the textstyle of the field to "link"
I alread BZ'd this. I probably should'a asked here first.
Comments welcome. Tim
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