links again

[Judy Perry]

Tim,

You can also check out a simple stack I have explaining how to do this up
on RevOnline in the Education category:  Hyperlinks in Transcript.

HTH,

Judy

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Hi TIm,
>
> Yes there is a way to do what you want, but it is a bit clumsy to
> implement. You need the property called "linkText". However you cannot
> set it using the property inspector, so you have to set it manually,
> either using a button or the message box.
>
> I usually do it by entering the following in the message box,
> selecting the relevant text, then pressing Enter to make the message
> box script happen.
>
> set the textStyle of he selectedText to link
> set the linkText of the selectedText to "http://www.runrev.com"
>
> When I lock the field's text and click on the text that I selected
> before running this script, the linkClicked message will have the
> parameter "http://www.runrev.com", regardless of the actual text of
> the link.
>
> HTH,
> Sarah
>
>
>
> On 11/5/06, Timothy Miller <gandalf at doctortimothymiller.com> wrote:
> > As you might guess, I'm struggling with this topic -- links. I submitted
> > a bz report that probably wasn't a bug. I asked a question on the list,
> > thought I understood the helpful replies, but it turns out I don't
> > understand very well after all. I've discovered several of my own
> > misconceptions along the way. I've been reading the instructions as best
> > I can.
> >
> > Sorry to be a pest, but I've gotta ask somebody, and who else ya gonna call?
> >
> > This time I'll try to ask small questions, one at a time. I have
> > several, but they're related. If I understand a few things, I can
> > probably figure out the rest.
> >
> > Here's a basic one.
> >
> > --Let's say I have several identical words in the same field (maybe it's
> > a rather long treatise), each defined as a link, by textStyle, and I
> > want each one to do something distinct when clicked.
> >
> > In other words, is there a way to assign something like
> >
> > <!--         <a href="http://www.runrev.com">thisIsMyLink</a>        -->
> >
> > to a specific link in RR? (I commented this example, so you might be
> > able to read it in your HTML-enabled email client.)
> >
> > What I mean is that the link would point to something that doesn't
> > actually display in the field, which remains connected to the link, even
> > if the link gets moved around. It probably wouldn't be a URL. More
> > likely, the not-visible part of the link would be a handler, or a few
> > lines of script.
> >
> > In other, other words, is it possible to get a text link to work kind of
> > like a button?
> >
> > I understand how to do something simple like
> >
> > on linkClicked theText
> >   if theText is not empty then revGoURL theText
> > end linkClicked
> >
> > But that wouldn't work for the purpose I'm describing because the text
> > and format of the links would be identical, so "theText" would also be
> > identical.
> >
> > I'm wondering if there's some way to do this sort of thing without
> > referencing the clicked word or chunk function. That would be
> > cumbersome, because every time I edited the field, all the chunk
> > references would change.
> >
> > Can someone give me a general idea of how to do it, or where to look it
> > up? Or a sketch of a sample script might be helpful.
> >
> > As I read over my question, I begin to suspect this sort of thing has to
> > be exported to some HTML-capable application, like a web browser. But,
> > maybe not...
> >
> > Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. I'm taking my meds now, so I
> > won't be querulous  :-)
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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