Inside Macintosh: OpenDoc Programmer's Guide / Part 3 - Human Interface Guidelines

Chapter 12 - Basic Interface Elements

Link Borders

The user can display all link borders within a document to see where linked data exists.

The part maintaining a link source or link destination draws the link border using the pattern shown (in fat-bits representation) in Figure 12-21. Because link borders must be drawn inside the content area of the part, your part may have to obscure some of its own content. The link border must faithfully follow the outline of the linked content.

Figure 12-21 Link borders

Note that the border pattern is a fill, not a stroked-in (pen-drawn) pattern. OpenDoc provides resources for both of these border appearances. The minimum size that the border should occupy is an area of 8-by-8 pixels.

For guidelines on how your part should handle linked content, see the section "Using Links"

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