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From: dbreece@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dave Breece)
Subject: Sub-referencing a scrolling field
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Organization: Indiana University
Date: 19 Apr 91 08:28:17 GMT
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I'm extrememly new to Hypercard, and I'm having some problems getting
data from a scrolling field.

I have a scolling field with an invisible line-size button over each
line of the field.  What I want to be able to do is click on a
particular line of the field (and thus it's button), and be able to
extract the text of that line for use in another part of the stack. 

This works fine, until you start to scroll.  Brilliant no?

Is there a way to get the number of the field-line relative to what's
visible?  In other words, is there any way to call the line that's on
top line one, regardless of it's position in the field?

Confused yet?  Any and all help would be appreciated, as I'm
completely withough ideas.  I'd really like to avoid building my own
scrolling field from scratch.  Thanks in advance...

-ps  I'm also in desperate need of clip art!!!  Help!!!
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Dave Breece ("Druid")                     "We are heros, we are dreamers
dbreece@silver.ucs.indiana.edu               of the big dream..."
dbreece@iubacs.bitnet                                            A/B/W/H
