np@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nigel Perry) (12/03/90)
The clickText (and related functions) in HC 2.0 seem to report the
WRONG answer if you click to far to the right of a character.
I discovered this when working with a font with wide (VERY) characters,
clickText kept returning the space AFTER the clicked character.
Thinking my font made be screwy (I wrote it) I tried the following
in Palantino 12: "a w m i", sure enough if you click in the right
half of the "w" or "m" clickText returns a space!!! System config:
Mac+ 2.5Mb, 6.0.7, MF, HC2.0, Suitcase, various inits. Is this a real
bug, is there a workaround? Thanks in advance.
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Nigel Perry Department of Computing
Imperial College
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Uucp: np@icdoc.UUCP, ukc!icdoc!np Englandjkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) (12/12/90)
In article <2603@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> np@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nigel Perry) writes: > >The clickText (and related functions) in HC 2.0 seem to report the >WRONG answer if you click to far to the right of a character. >I discovered this when working with a font with wide (VERY) characters, >clickText kept returning the space AFTER the clicked character. >Thinking my font made be screwy (I wrote it) I tried the following >in Palantino 12: "a w m i", sure enough if you click in the right >half of the "w" or "m" clickText returns a space!!! System config: >Mac+ 2.5Mb, 6.0.7, MF, HC2.0, Suitcase, various inits. Is this a real >bug, is there a workaround? Thanks in advance. This is a feature of TextEdit. Specifically, HyperCard calls the TextEdit routine TEGetOffset to find out which character you clicked, and when you click on the right half of a character, it returns the next character. We're still looking for a good workaround. Kevin Calhoun HyperCard Team Apple Computer, Inc. Disclaimer: I'm not a spokeshuman for Apple.