Hi Mark - you probably want to use a mouseMove handler rather than
mouseWithin. Try starting off with something simple like this...
on mouseMove
put word 2 of the mouseLine into n
set the textColor of line 1 to -1 of me to empty
set the textColor of line n of me to blue
end mouseMove
HTH,
Terry...
On 5/03/2016 7:08 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Mitchell"
<use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of cowh...@mac.com> wrote:
>(Sorry Heather! I¹m sending this message again from the Œproper¹
>account..)
>
>I¹m not sure how long it has been around, but I have just discovered the
>Œmousewhithin¹ message combined with the mouseline() functionŠ Awesome!
>So, for those of you who don¹t know, the Œmousewithin¹ message is sent to
>a field periodically (5 times a second?) whenever the mouse is inside
>that field.
>
>Then, the mouseline function returns whatever line of that field the
>mouse is currently hovering over. I am currently using this to warn
>folks if they have too many characters per line. And that works fine.
>
>But to make it more intuitive, I want to somehow hilite or indicate the
>line that the mouse is over in the field, without disturbing the ability
>to edit that field (copy, paste, type stuff) with ease.
>
>I have tried a few different ways of hiliting the line of the field
>(selecting it, changing the color of the text of it, etc) but any sort of
>repeat or recursive structure does not work, as the ³mousewithin² message
>is simply sent far too often for any Œrepeat¹ or recursion to work.
>
>Does anyone have any other ideas for highlighting a line in a field that
>might work under these conditions?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Markk
>
>
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