neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves) (01/25/90)
What is the best way of finding out where some text in a field appears
on the screen -- i.e. its screen rectangle? The field text is word
wrapped -- there are no return characters in it.
The only way I could figure out how to do it is to write a function that
starts at the beginning of the field and computes character positions
with word wrap figured in until it gets the the text in question.
Anyone done this?
-Thanks, david
p.s. Earlier I asked about good Hypertalk books. As other people have
suggested, I went with Apple's HyperCard Script Language Guide. I
wouldn't recommend it for beginners but it makes an excellent reference
book.
p.s.s. A second question:
How can one reference a selected object from the message box? To
quickly edit the script of any object I would like to mouse it and then
type "edit" in the message box.
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