[SOLVED] Property Inspector Contents section

[anmldr]

Is the content that you can put in this area HTML? If it is not HTML, then how do you add a hyperlink? In some of the scripting conferences, I have seen that some of the text can be hyperlinks.

Linda

[Mark]

Hi Linda,

Select the text in a field and choose Link from the Text menu.

Kind regards,

Mark

[dunbarx]

Hi.



Not sure what you are asking. When setting the textStyle of several words to "link" that "group" of text is treated as a single word upon such things as "the clicktext". So you can then treat this "grouped" text as a hyperlink if you want. Is that what you meant?

The "contents" in the inspector pertains to dataGrids, table fields, etc. What did you have in mind in that regard?

Do I have any of this right?

Craig Newman

[anmldr]

Select the text in a field and choose Link from the Text menu.

That is a start. At least it turned blue like a hyperlink and is underlined but I do not see where to enter what to link to...

For instance if there were words "I am a link" that you want to be a hyperlink, you select that text and choose Link from the Text menu. It never gives you a choice for you to enter something like "http://www.mysite.com". All that it does is to change the text color to blue and underline it.

Linda

[Klaus]

Hi Linda,

It never gives you a choice for you to enter something like "http://www.mysite.com".
All that it does is to change the text color to blue and underline it.

Yes, that is correct!

You need to add a script to that field with the link in it and catch the "linkclicked" message.
Like this, which presume that you only have internet links (http://www....):

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on linkclicked tLink
  launch url tLink
end linkclicked

Best

Klaus

[Mark]

Hi Linda,

There are several ways to do this. You could set the htmlText property of a field to, for example,

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<p>some text <a href="http://somelink.com">this is a link"</a> some text</p>.

You can do this by copying this piece of htmlText and executing the following line from the message box:

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set the htmlText of fld x to the clipboardData["text"]

but there are many more possible ways to set the htmlText property. You just can't do this in the properties inspector.

Another possibility is to execute syntax like this:

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set the linkText of word 3 to 7 of fld x to "http://somelink.com"

Now you can add the following script to your field:

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on linkClicked theLink
  launch URL theLink
end linkClicked

If you don't set a link but instead just select some text and choose Link from the menu, you could do this:

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on linkClicked theLink
  if theLink is "I am a link" then
    lunch URL "http://economy-x-talk.com"
  else
    beep
  end if
end linkClicked

Kind regards,

Mark

[anmldr]

Great! Hopefully, I am starting to "get it".

Linda

[Klaus]

Go, Linda, Go!