On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Petasis Gewrgios wrote:
* Hi all,
* as far as i know, in a browser object, you can change the attributes of a line.
* Is there a way to change an attribute (e.g. the color) of a certain
* word only and not the entire line? (according to manuals, no...)
* Has anyone ever written anythink like that ?
* (What i want to do ia a help facility, with some links, where the user
* clicks on them, and the appropriate page appears. What i need is a way to
* make clear that a certain word is a link...)
* I believe, that it would be nice, the browser object to support such changes.
* When you turn on an attribute (eg @c) it would be nice to be able to turn it
* off (something like @\c ??), no matter how many lines have past...
* (My opinion always ...)
* Also browser object does not show anything untill scrollbar appears and on
* my platform (AIX 4.2) (even in fdesign...)
I am also in the middle of writing a x based manual browser (among other
things) and I parse the man page to find the "SEE ALSO" section so I can
link standard man pages. I hope it to have a web browserish interface
with history and cashing and the whole thing. In any case, it would be
nice if there was a way I could have a user select a particular word,
rather than a particular line. As of right now I have to split each link
to a separate line. One solution would be to have the browser return not
only the selected line, but also the position (ie. the number of
characters to the right of the left margin) in the selected line. Is this
possible now? The client program should have no problem with more than
one link on the same line then. Any thoughts?
Jeff Drost
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