here's a challenge

[Dar Scott]

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 03:55 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> Does anyone have any ideas? 

1.
Use the box char property.

2.
You can make a rectangle.  Place it around the line (or word).  Find 
the rectangle for the line (or word) and then put a space around that 
to make the rectangle.

Now all you have to do is find the rectangle of the line (or word). For 
line:  The top is the field top plus the border plus the margin plus a 
magic number plus the formattedHeight of all lines before it (or 0 for 
none).  The left, I would guess, is the left of the field plus the 
border plus the margin.  The width of the line and the height of the 
line get from formattedWidth and formattedHeight.

Wild idea.  I'm not sure how this will work.  I probably left out some 
numbers to add.

I'm not sure how to make the box outline translucent.

Dar Scott