Please suggest script

[Devin Asay]

On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:

> Thanks Andre!
> 
> I think you might have misunderstood my request. What I want to do is pretty simple. I will manually locate web URLs, and hilite them manually. They are in plain text. Then I want to click a button that will turn the hilited plain-text URL into a clickable link. By "clickable link" I mean I want it to open the URL in my web browser.
> 
> I tried:
> 
> get the selectedText
> revGoUrl it
> 
> That worked, to my amazement. Cool. Didn't know about RevGoUrl.
> 
> OTOH, the docs say revGoUrl is deprecated. I'm not sure what to use instead.
> 
> I want the same link to be clickable next time I come across it. I know how to set the textstyle of the selectedText to "link", but that doesn't make it a clickable link.
> 
> Hope that's clear.

Tim,

It's pretty simple:

The link-making button:

on mouseUp
    set the textStyle of the selectedChunk to "link"
end mouseUp

In the field that has the linked text:

on linkClicked pTxt
    launch url pTxt
end linkClicked

That should do what you want.

Regards,

Devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University