Hi John and David,

I think I did not explain myself very well at all.

A user does a look up on the database and gets a split screen
(a bit like UT). On the left-hand side could be a photograph,
and on the right an edit box with an article.

First problem, how can one make specific words in that edit box
appear italic, bold, bold and underlined ?

Next, how can one make specific words be bold and underlined as
well as hot spots to which my software will respond as soon as the
user clicks on a "hot-spotted" word, either to fire up/switch to
a browser, or to do a further look up on the database ?

David has given me the means to fire up the browser. However, my
main problem is being able to present to the user text which has
formatting (underline, italic, bold, or any combination of those)
and which has hot spots that I can act on when the user clicks on
them.

Michel.

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>Hi Michel,
>
>You can store the URL's in a fox table. When the search is performed, those links, which are just strings to VFP, can be used as the basis for HTML that is rendered back to the client. Once in those browsers, those links can then be the targets of hyper links. You have two basic options at your disposal. One is to use West Wind Web Connection. The other is to use Active Scripting (ASP).
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>We are planning to develop an application based around a pure Fox database (VFP5/6). Sometimes the result of a search through the database, or even of a direct enquiry will bring text where we would
>>like keywords to be highlighted. When the user clicks on those keywords (hot spots) he is then taken either to another article in the database, or to an address on the Internet, depending on what is
>>"behind" the highlighted keyword.
>>
>>It would seem that storing the articles in HTML is the only way forward to do something like that, but I
>>am not sure, and I do not know what tools we should use.
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions and/or products for this ?
>>
>>
>>Thanks.
>>Michel Creppy.