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[Pete]

Thank you Chris, that fixed it.  So many properties, so little time....

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at me.com> wrote:

> Pete,
>
> Make sure the sharedText property is set to true on your field. That way
> the text should be shared across all cards without you having to repopulate
> the field. And it should keep your links intact, I believe.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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> Chris Sheffield
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> On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Pete wrote:
>
> > Thanks Terry, I found the problem.  There was indeed something in a group
> > script that was causing the problem.
> >
> > Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way but I'm trying to implement a
> help
> > system for my application.  It's a series of cards in one stack.  I've
> > defined a background group for the help navigation area, which is where I
> > have the field with the link text.  Since it's a background group, it
> > appears on each new card I create in the stack.  So far so good.  Problem
> > is, while that gets the navigation field on all the cards, it doesn't get
> > its contents.  So I put some code in there to copy the navigation field
> > contents from card 1 of the stack to the current card. The text gets
> > copied, but the links are no longer there, even though they are still
> there
> > on the first card in the stack.
> >
> > I'm delving into yet another new area of LC, text links, so no doubt I'm
> > not understanding something.  Any suggestions much appreciated!
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Terry Judd <tsj at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >> On 03/02/2012, at 01:30 PM, Pete wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm trying to set the link text of a line of text in a field.  I'm doing
> >> while in browse mode by highlighting the line of text then selecting
> "Link"
> >> from the Text menu.  The text changes color and if I click on it, all
> works
> >> as expected.  However if I close the card, then open it again, all the
> >> links are gone.  How can I make these links "stick"?
> >>
> >> They should stick. Are you sure you're not setting the contents of the
> >> field to some previously saved state on a preopencard or opencard
> handler?
> >>
> >> Terry...
> >>
> >>
> >>
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