Creating links

[Richard Gaskin]

Terry Judd wrote:

> OK, surely this can't be difficult. How do I select some text in a
> field and then set its linkText property without having to resort to
> "set the linkText of..." in the message box? I'm having real problems
> even querying the selectedChunk given that it automatically deselects
> as soon as I click in the message box (or anywhere else for that
> matter).

You could add this to a backscript:

on functionKey k
  if k = 4 then
    get the selectedChunk
    if it is not empty then
      put it into tSaveSel
      ask "Link to:" with "http://www.fourthworld.com"
      if it is empty then exit to top
      select tSaveSel
      set the linkText of the selection to it
    end if
  end if
end functionKey



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