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Excerpts from ext.andrew: 21-May-91 Re: Is "ez" available as a .. David
Anderson@andrew.cm (1296)

> > I have an application where I'd like to display some text, with
> > different sorts of properties on the text like bolding and
> > italicizing, and I'd like the user to be able to click on a boldfaced
> > word and have something happen. I was wondering if the Andrew toolkit
> > could help me out with this.

> Sure, this would be straightforward to do by either using or subclassing
> the ATK text object. The chlist object (in andrew/atk/champ/) does
> something similar to what you're looking for.

Actually, it's almost trivial to do as a subclass/version of the 'panel'
object (which is a subclass of the 'text' object that looks like a list
of text items).  Override panel_Add() with a version that calls
super_Add(), gets back the panel_Entry (which includes the position and
length of the item label), then applies the appropriate formatting to
that text.  Also note that panel entry labels can be multi-line, and can
contain embedded objects, such as bitmaps or animations.

The potential drawback is that the panel object inserts newlines between
panel entries, so that you wind up with a list, rather than straight
text.  If you want to remove that bit of formatting (again trivial; just
get rid of the single line that inserts the newline, and any (< 3)
length calculations that assume it's there), it's easiest to make a
"version" of panel, rather than a simple subclass.

Bill