[Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord

[Julian Tenney]

Can't find it right now, I'm sure this has been done before but can't think where it is: couple of methods, in both cases you need to use getTextExtent().

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 25 January 2011 16:54
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord

Difficult bugger.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 25 January 2011 16:54
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord

Highlighter.
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:50:45 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Speaking of MarkWord
You want to draw a rectangle behind it, like a highlighter, or just make the text a different colour?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 25 January 2011 16:47
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Subject: [Xerte] Speaking of MarkWord

Xerte 2 desktop.

I don't need any interactivity, just a way to highlight a word or words in a string:
e.g. I would like this [word] to have a yellow highlight.

Method already exist?

Cheers;

Dave

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