> My question still remains: what's a good way to highlight a
> chunk of text in a text member
Just a quick idea but have you considered using a QuickDraw shape (drawn
from the tool palette) behind your text display as a highlight mechanism?
You could hide the QD sprite (or sprites) off-screen t
If you had to, you can work out the coordinates of the text you want
to highlight, and set the rect of a shape sprite to sit on top of
that text, with it set to Darkest ink.
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Thanks, Jeff--I don't know why it didn't occur to me that selection is a
great highlighting device in a text member. I'll take your cue and write it
off as a Friday night slowdown. S.
At 06:36 PM 11/21/03 -0800, you wrote:
>The following statement sets the selection
>displayed by the spr
Please remember to check the manual or online help, before inquiring here. However, I
will take pity on you, since the documentation does seem less than ideal in the areas
of #text and #field members (and what the hell, it's Friday night and I apparently
have no life). ;)
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