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From: catrin@ditmela.oz (Catrin Jonsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Problems when cmd-clicking in a field
Message-ID: <7291@ditmela.oz>
Date: 1 Oct 89 07:36:16 GMT
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology, Australia
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I am developing a stack where I want the users to have access to help texts by 
cmd-clicking, i.e clicking while holding the command key down, at the field,
 button etc. whose funtion they are interested in. The reason why I chose the
command key was that it was the only way to trap a mouse click in an editable
field. Now I have noticed that if I click at some text, Hypercard puts that
text into the messagebox, after first displaying a rectangle around the text.
This happens after the mouseDown message, but before any mouseStillDown
messages are sent. 

When exactly does it happen and most of all, how can I stop it? Is there some
system message that I don't know about to override?

/Catrin

catrin@ditmela.oz.au