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No.<br>I'm sure it's just not within Flash's tiny html subset.<br><br>I'm not sure how to apply getTextExtent() here.<br>Doesn't that just give me the general metrics for the TF?<br>e.g. how do I get to x,y of D in Dave in some long string?<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: Patrick.Lockley@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:12:02 +0000<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hmmmm, try this Shirley</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><p style=”background-color:#ff0000”><a blaaaah></a></p></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 January 2011 17:57<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><br>No diff.<br><br>And don't call me Shirley.</span></p><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From: Patrick.Lockley@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:25:06 +0000<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord</span></p><div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">a style="background-colour#ffff00" surely?</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">None of that firefox freaky stuff here thank you very much</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p></div><div id="ecxdivRpF137984"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"><hr width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett [d_b_burnett@hotmail.com]<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"><br><br><a STYLE="background-color: rgb(255,255,0)" href="asfunct<br><br>Nothing. :-(<br><br>Daa.<br><br><br></span></p><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:05:03 +0000<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Can you set the background via CSS? That would be much easier as then you could use styles and string.replace(), dropping in html to set the styles. However, I suspect not…</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Otherwise you have to use getTextExtent() to </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">-- find the metrics of the end of the string leading up to the word you want to highlight – so you know where to start drawing</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">-- work out the w and h of the actual word, so you knowhow wide / deep to draw</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">-- draw the rect somewhere</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">-- loop over the string looking for match.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Be a useful engine method, because you’ll be wanting a few functions to do this tidily.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; border-color: -moz-use-text-color;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 January 2011 16:54<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Difficult bugger.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; border-color: -moz-use-text-color;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 January 2011 16:54<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">Highlighter.</span></p><div style="margin-left: 36pt;"><div style="margin-left: 36pt;"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"><hr width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:50:45 +0000<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">You want to draw a rectangle behind it, like a highlighter, or just make the text a different colour?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; border-color: -moz-use-text-color;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 144pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 January 2011 16:47<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Speaking of MarkWord</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 144pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 144pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">Xerte 2 desktop.<br><br>I don't need any interactivity, just a way to highlight a word or words in a string:<br>e.g. I would like this [word] to have a yellow highlight.<br><br>Method already exist?<br><br>Cheers;<br><br>Dave</span></p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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