Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
Thanks, Jonathan, Jacque, Jeanne, Trevor and Eric for your suggestions. This is what I ended up with and it's working very well. It basically emulates what happens in a web browser when you hover over a link. on mouseWithin if the mouse is down then exit mouseWithin if the textStyle of th

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Devin, MouseWithin is sent repeatedly by the engine all 200 milliseconds but I would prefer to use mouseMove that is also sent all 200 milliseconds but only if the mouse moves. I would also prefer to segment my code to take advantage of built-in messages and use the linkClicked message.

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Devin Asay wrote: I actually modified my handler to add an interrupt at the beginning: on mouseWithin if the mouse is down then exit mouseWithin ## interrupt this handler to pay attention to the mouse. if the textStyle of the mouseText contains "link" then put the linkText of the mous

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 10:49 AM -0700 2/24/2006, Devin Asay wrote: on mouseWithin if the mouse is down then exit mouseWithin ## interrupt this handler to pay attention to the mouse. if the textStyle of the mouseText contains "link" then put the linkText of the mouseText into fld "status" else put emp

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Devin Asay wrote: I have an application with a field that can have link style text in it. I wanted the contents of the linkText of link-style text to show up in a field when you mouse over it, just like in a web browser when you mouse over a hot link. So I wrote

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Cool, sorry I misunderstood. Just in case you need it, you can also click links within unlocked fields, using the selectionchanged handler. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: hello, What I mean is this: Pretend the following is a link:Q When your mouse moves over the Q, you display a field that shows the content of the linktext. You have to make sure the position of that field does not cover the link,

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
hello, What I mean is this: Pretend the following is a link:Q When your mouse moves over the Q, you display a field that shows the content of the linktext. You have to make sure the position of that field does not cover the link, and that it moves with the mouse. Like this (untested, but d

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
Jonathan, Thanks for the reply. On Feb 24, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: The field that displays the link text needs to be placed lower than the mouseloc, so that it does not get in the way. I'm not sure I'm following this. By 'link text' do you mean text with link style or th

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Yes... I do this in Task Mage. The field that displays the link text needs to be placed lower than the mouseloc, so that it does not get in the way. I set it up in task mage so that you can display the link, then either click the link, or move the mouse down and highlight the displayed linktext

Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
I have an application with a field that can have link style text in it. I wanted the contents of the linkText of link-style text to show up in a field when you mouse over it, just like in a web browser when you mouse over a hot link. So I wrote this handler in the field. on mouseWithin if