On 7/5/11 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Keith Clarke wrote:

 > I was using the <a> link description as an analogy to describe
 > the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text
 > within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know
 > that this is not a standard thing that I have simply overlooked).
 >
 > I've tried the message watcher but there don't seem to be any
 > messages generated when the mouse traverses a change in textStyle
 > - i.e. the cursor doesn't change to a finger when over a link.
 > I hadn't really noticed this before but it seems strange as the
 > default behaviour. Is there maybe a property switch to enable
 > more orthodox cursor behaviour when over links in text?

LC's htmlText supports the name attribute, so you can use something like
this:

<a name="Some text you want to display">Link Label</a>

I take back what I just said about inventing tag names, it doesn't seem to work now. I could have sworn it used to. So your method is better.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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