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- From: derthanq@oregon.uoregon.edu (Victor Der-Thanq Chen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: Hi-liting a locked field
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 23:53 PST
- Organization: University of Oregon
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- Message-ID: <22DEC199223531457@oregon.uoregon.edu>
- References: <babb-161292152533@larc.sdsu.edu> <1992Dec22.175845.24799@agt.uucp>
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- In article <1992Dec22.175845.24799@agt.uucp>, Allen Winter <AWINTER1@agt.ab.ca> writes...
- >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
-
- Or something even shorter:
-
- select the text of card field 1
-
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- Victor Chen
- U. of Oregon
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