Using linkText

[Peter Brigham MD]

On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> 
> On Jul 7, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Pete wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, hadn't noticed that.  But it just seems to make the text a link or
>> not, no way to specify what the link should be.
>> 
>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose of linkText.  What I want to do is
>> have each link go to a specific card in the stack....
> 
> All that setting the style of a textrun to "link" does is to display it as a web link and when it is clicked it sends a "linkClicked" message to the field with the first parameter being the text that was clicked. It's up to you to trap the "linkClicked" message and then do something with it.
> 
> An alternative method is to set the htmlText of a field to text that includes an "a href=" tag; if you do *that*, the value in "href" is returned as the parameter to linkClicked, NOT the text itself. Consider this HTML chunk:
> 
>  <a href="Test">This is a test</a>
> 
> The phrase "This is a test" will be underlined and clickable, but when you click it:
> 
> on linkClicked pText
>  answer pText
> end linkClicked
> 
> This would answer "Test", not "This is a test".
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Here's what I have in one of my fields, where I am creating links from time to time:

on mouseup
   -- select the text you want to turn into a link
   -- then control-click the selectedText
   -- mouseup is sent when control-clicking in an unlocked field
   if the environment <> "development" then pass mouseup
   if $user <> "pmbrig" then exit mouseup
   -- prevents other users from modifying links
   if the controlkey is down then
      put the clickchunk into cc
      put the clicktext into ctxt
      put the linktext of cc into linkT
      -- in case you are modifying an existing link
      ask "Linktext for '" & ctxt & "'?" with linkT as sheet
      put result() into r
      put it into linkT
      if r = empty then
         if linkT = empty then
            -- to remove link & set the text back to normal style
            set the forecolor of cc to empty
            set the textstyle of cc to empty
            set the linktext of cc to empty
         else
            set the forecolor of cc to blue
            set the textstyle of cc to link
            set the linktext of cc to linkT
         end if
      end if
   else
      pass mouseup
   end if
end mouseup

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig