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Re: AW4: Trying to find a word in a Scrolling Text.

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From: William Cary
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 00:00
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Rene this is not possible. Not with the scrolling text field.  You could
make a long text field with a window above it and move the text field
behind the window.  Kind of  pain.
:-)
I suggest getting away from the scrolling text fields or try using and
external program like a help wizzard program.  You could put your
glossary in the external program and then jump to it passing it a
variable of the word.

I have not successfully completed this task but it sound interesting to
do. The key would be to find a help program that accepts variables.

Good luck
Danny Cary



Rene Aube wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working on a project with Authorware 4.0. The problem is that I'm
> trying
> to find a word that is located in a scrolling text. Then I would like
> to
> move the scroll bar to the Position of that word.
>
> For example : It's like a Glossary. The user can click on a underlined
> word.
> Then the Glossary page opens up and the scrollbar moves to the
> position of
> that word.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Rene Jean Aube
> Programmer
> New Brunswick Community College
> Bathurst, N.B.
> auber@gov.nb.ca
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