Spell Checker

[Ray Horsley]

on 8/6/02 9:28 AM, Yates, Glen at JAMES.G.YATES at saic.com wrote:

>> on 8/2/02 6:44 PM, J. Landman Gay at jacque at hyperactivesw.com wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8/2/02 4:38 PM, Ray Horsley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've written a spell checker with all the things one would
>> expect to find.
>>>> It has just one problem:  I can't highlight a misspelled
>> word while bringing
>>>> up a second stack as a modal
>>> 
>>> You could set the backcolor of the text chunk. It looks
>> like hiliting
>>> but is permanent. I.e.:
>>> 
>>> set the backcolor of char 1 to 5 of fld 1 to "yellow"
>> 
>> Thanks for the reply Jackie, however, the problem with
>> highlighting the text
>> (using Metacard's highlighting) is that the instant I bring
>> up another stack
>> as a modal which lets users determine wether they want to ignore the
>> misspelled word, change it, etc. the highlighting goes away since I'm
>> providing a blinking insertion point in the modal.
>> 
>> Any other ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks,  Ray
> 
> Ray, did you even read Jackie's message? She's telling you to try setting
> the backcolor property of your field, not to rely on Metacard's highliting.
> 
> You could do something like the following:
> 
> on exitField
> set the backcolor of the selectedchunk to yellow
> end exitField
> 
> Now, if you go to any other stack the text will remain pseudo-highlited.
> 
> One point, if you click a button to go to the other stack, then you must set
> traversal off for that button or else the selectedchunk will be destroyed
> before the exitField handler is run.
> 
> -Glen
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Thanks, Glen.  Yes I read Jackie's message, it just didn't 'click' right
away what the backColor would do.  Nonetheless, I think I'll stick with the
arrow graphic pointing at the topLeft of the misspelled word instead of
highlighting just the text.  I think it'll be more obvious that way.

Thanks for you help.


Ray