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- From: ellens@bnr.ca (Chris Ellens)
- Subject: Re: Text in Background Fields
- Message-ID: <ellens-110193141112@47.220.2.154>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:07:39 GMT
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- In article <ellens-050193130021@47.220.2.154>, ellens@bnr.ca (Chris Ellens)
- wrote:
- >
- > I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but I'm stumped. How can I create
- > a field in the background and enter text into it? I can create the field
- > ok, and I can enter text into it at the card layer, but if I then set the
- > "shared text" property, all of the text disappears. I can't enter the text
- > at the background layer at all (I don't get the I-beam cursor). Cutting the
- > field from a card and pasting to the background also deleted all of the
- > text.
- >
- Thanks to everyone who replied to this. I got a lot of tips (what a helpful
- newsgroup!) but the simple answer was: I should have set the "sharedText"
- attribute BEFORE entering the text, and did I remember to change from the
- field tool back to the browse tool before trying the enter the text.
-
- Chris Ellens ellens@bnr.ca
-