tags as tokens within fields

[James Hale]

Hi,

My app will allow for items (text snippets) to be tagged with either words or phrases.
I am on a MAC and many of the apps I use have this tagging feature.
However I am interested in how they visually represent the tags present.
OS X has the ability to show the tag as a blue button which, rather than remain an editable word, becomes a single "character" or token.
MAIL is a good example in that email addresses become a blue token once recognised.
The search area in a finder window will concatenate a specified search term with its context (if selected) as a single token.
Many other apps do similar things and are obviously using something built into cocoa.

Has anyone on this list tried replicating this UI feature within Livecode?

James

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