Ken.Knight@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Knight) (01/09/91)
fsb@vitro.uucp (Steve Brailsford) writes: >...In these text fields are >all capitalized words, like WORD, and I want to make a button >out of that word to get more info on that part of it. I tried >replacing the word part with blanks in the field, and putting >a button with that word in its place. But the button doesn't >show up. I think in 1.2 you can't have a button in a field. >Is there a way to do it in 2.0? Thanks for any help. Your buttons are being obscured by the field itself. You can move them up in the layers on the card by selecting them with the button tool and using the Move Closer command in the Objects menu. Keep in mind that in scrolling fields, or fields that you simply resize, this scheme is not going to work any longer since the button will have moved off the words it is supposed to be matched to. I'd suggest instead you make use of the new Grouped Text style and the ClickText function. So, in a field script you might do something like: on mouseUp put the clickText into phrase if phrase is not empty then do whatever you want here end if end mouseUp Hope that helps. In version 1.2.x you'd do this in a silghtly different manner using the selectedText function. This works well for single word markers, to get multiple words is a totally different matter. -- Ken Knight, Ken.Knight@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org via The Black Cat's Shack's FidoNet<->Usenet Gateway blkcat.fidonet.org and Fidonet 1:109/401