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Select words from Text (OpenInsight Specific)

At 03 DEC 1998 09:03:56PM Leslie wrote:

OpenInsight Specific

We have a box, in a data entry screen, into which users enter text.

We would like users to be able to click on specific words or phrases

in the box which we then extract as keywords. Eg:
  Food
  Food Preparation
How can we detect which words have been marked?

Thanks

At 03 DEC 1998 10:46PM Don Bakke wrote:

Leslie,

Use the SELECTION property for this.

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SRP Computer Solutions

At 05 DEC 1998 04:45PM Leslie wrote:

Thanks Don,

That worked. However we would like a bit more flexibility.

For example, in the sentence:
   Did Bill know that Monica was orally challenged?
we would like the use to be able to click on:
   Bill, Monica
but to highlight 'orally challenged' so that we end up with the keywords:
   Bill
   Monica
   Orally challenged
At present we can only highlight one word/phrase at a time.

Any suggestions

At 07 DEC 1998 01:47PM Cameron Revelation wrote:

Leslie,

With a text box ("Edit Box" control) the selection property can be used to highlight any number of characters/words/lines.

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

At 08 DEC 1998 10:40AM Oystein Reigem wrote:

But only one contiguous area can be selected/highlighted at a time, right? I don't understand if Leslie wants several at a time. If so he could hack with an RTF edit box…

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