Showing linkText on mouse over

[Devin Asay]

I have an application with a field that can have link style text in  
it. I wanted the contents of the linkText of link-style text to show  
up in a field when you mouse over it, just like in a web browser when  
you mouse over a hot link. So I wrote this handler in the field.

on mouseWithin
   if the textStyle of the mouseText contains "link" then
     put the linkText of the mouseText into fld "status"
   else
     put empty into fld "status"
   end if
end mouseWithin

It works great, but it intermittently blocks the linkClicked handler  
in the same field from executing. I assume it's because the  
mouseWithin message is sent continuously and it's occasionally  
blocking the mouse clicks. Can anyone suggest a more reliable way to  
make these functionalities play nicely together?

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University