Anchoring Objects

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Fri Sep 5 16:01:44 UTC 2003


On Friday 05 September 2003 08:27 am, jlonglan at uwo.ca wrote:
> I've been working on my little project for a few weeks now..  and I
> thought I was pretty much done.  I created a transparent morph that
> I'm using as a button.  I place the morph on top of an area of text
> in my PluggableTextMorph..  and when the user clicks on the "text"
> - they actually click on the button, and open my interactive
> activity...  except for one problem.  I just realized that my
> transparent buttons stay in the same place, instead of anchoring to
> the specific text.  I feel quite dumb for missing something so
> obvious...  Could someone tell me how I can anchor the button so
> it'll stay in the same spot?

Yes. Look at TextAnchor. It's a text attribute that can be applied to 
the current selection (or other appropriate chunk of text) and will 
move its anchored Morph as needed.


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