Please suggest script

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Wed Nov 17 13:42:43 EST 2010


yes, Devin wins!

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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