On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Thanks Andre!
>
> I think you might have misunderstood my request. What I want to do is pretty
> simple. I will manually locate web URLs, and hilite them manually. They are
> in plain text. Then I want to click a button that will turn the hilited
> plain-text URL into a clickable link. By "clickable link" I mean I want it to
> open the URL in my web browser.
>
> I tried:
>
> get the selectedText
> revGoUrl it
>
> That worked, to my amazement. Cool. Didn't know about RevGoUrl.
>
> OTOH, the docs say revGoUrl is deprecated. I'm not sure what to use instead.
>
> I want the same link to be clickable next time I come across it. I know how
> to set the textstyle of the selectedText to "link", but that doesn't make it
> a clickable link.
>
> Hope that's clear.
Tim,
It's pretty simple:
The link-making button:
on mouseUp
set the textStyle of the selectedChunk to "link"
end mouseUp
In the field that has the linked text:
on linkClicked pTxt
launch url pTxt
end linkClicked
That should do what you want.
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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