Subject: Re: FmtMark
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Tue May 08 2001 - 14:08:08 CDT
chris> However, would it be possible to grab the current style at the
chris> current cursor location in order to fill in the style form?
Long ago, a version of AmiPro that I used had a feature that let you
grab all the formatting info from one place in a document and apply it
to a selection. I think their icon for it was an eye-dropper. I
guess the metaphor was supposed to be sucking up formatting and
splashing it onto the other place.
You highlighted some stuff, clicked the eye-dropper icon, clicked the
location that had the kind of formatting you wanted, and then clicked
the target location. (Actually, it's been so long, I may have the
mechanics mis-remembered ... maybe you did the highlight at the very
end, while your cursor was changed to a filled eye-dropper.)
Anyhow, this worked pretty well and seems to me not a bad UI adjunct
to a dialog for editing styles (it would be OK with me to skip the
eye-dropper metaphor ... it was a little, uh, cute).
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