Hotwords

quailcreek · Post by **quailcreek** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:13 pm

Hello,
How do I build each line of a field into a hotword? I'm not sure if hotword is the correct term in Rev but that's what it's called in toolbook.

Regards
Tom

malte · Post by **malte** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:30 pm

Could you describe what a "hotword" does?

All the best,

Malte

quailcreek · Post by **quailcreek** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:11 pm

Hi Malte,
A hotword is maybe called hypertext? It more less becomes an object with properties similar to and functioing like a button.

Tom

Bernard · Post by **Bernard** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:27 pm

It's actually quite straightforward.

create a new mainstack
create a field
put some text into line 1 of the field
lock the field
type this in the message box (make sure the new stack is the one listed in the msg box)
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set the textStyle of line 1 of field 1 to "link"
```
put this handler in the field:
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on linkClicked theText 
  if theText is not empty then answer "you clicked" && theText
end linkClicked
```

Unfortunately the docs with Rev are in a sorry stated. Hard to believe that the PDF docs are still incomplete about a year after v.2.7 was released.

Obviously you can start adding more text to the field to experiement with associating the link with other parts of text. And you can add to that basic handler to do lots of useful stuff.