Questions about Re: Hypertext markers in FM

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dick (and all), 

A couple questions about your answer:

1) In your response you say "you cannot put a hyperlink on free text". Maybe I
am missing the obvious, however, how does one do just that?  I would think
that there is even more use for clicking on "some words of text in a flow" and
jumping somewhere.

2) Once you are located at the point to where you have jumped, how do you get
"Back"?  Have I missed something obvious?

Jay Smith



dgaskill@ES.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> If I understand correctly what you want, it's as easy as 1-2-3.
> 
> 1.  Create the destination link first.
> *       Go to the place in the document where you want the user to end up
> when he clicks on the hotspot.
> *       Click on some text to put the cursor there.
> *       Open the hypertext dialog box (Esc-s-h), and in the marker field,
> type in "newlink <name>" (without the quotes), and select OK.  <name> can be
> whatever you want.
> 
> 2.  Create the hotspot.
> *       On top of the graphic, draw a text frame over the area you want to
> be a the "Hotspot".  You have to use a text frame, you cannot put a
> hypertext link on free text.
> 
> 3.  Create the jump.
> *       Click on the text in the text frame you created in step (2) to put
> the cursor there.
> *       In the hypertext dialog box enter "gotolink <name>" (without the
> quotes), and click OK.  Name must be the same as <name> in step 1.
> Alternate: use openlink instead of gotolink.
> 
> I use this method a lot to make it easy when explaining a dialog box to my
> users.  It works much like winhelp this way.  You can use it to jump from
> one GUI screen capture to another too, just create a text frame in the
> second graphic and put the destination link in it.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Dick Gaskill
> 
> > ----------
> > From:         Callaway, Rebecca[SMTP:Rebecca.Callaway@alliedsignal.com]
> > Sent:         Monday, March 29, 1999 10:40 AM
> > To:   'Post to Framers'
> > Subject:      Hypertext markers in FM
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > Can someone supply a quick primer on how to do this (if it can be
> > done...)
> >
> > We want to make some kind of label or callout on a graphic, and when the
> > user "clicks" on it, have the callout linked so that the reader is taken
> > to the text of the procedure related to the link.
> >
> > Actually, I know that the best way to do this (one of the best ways
> > maybe...) is with Hot Spots in CGM graphics.  We're not up to speed yet
> > on that, so we're attempting the "cheap seats" method.  Can a hypertext
> > link be inserted within the document itself to other parts of the
> > document?  Or, should we just use cross-referencing.
> >
> > thx -
> >
> > REbecca
> >

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