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- From: Allen Winter <AWINTER1@agt.ab.ca>
- Subject: Re: Hi-liting a locked field
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.175845.24799@agt.uucp>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 17:58:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.235134.3822@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Eric C. Kofoid,
- kofoid@bioscience.utah.edu writes:
- >1. Make the field transparent.
- >2. Set the textstyle to outline.
- >3. Paint a black rectangle behind the field.
-
- The above works very well. Now to actually select text from within a
- script:
-
- put the number of lines in card field 1 into lastLine
- select line 1 to lastLine of card field 1
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- Allen Winter;
- AGT Ltd; R&D; Edmonton, Alberta
- AWINTER1@agt.ab.ca
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