Formatting and Fields

[A1Qicks]

Is it possible within LiveCode to have different formatting for text within a field? I don't currently see any way of doing so and thus am led to believe that you can't, though equally it seems like a basic thing to be able to set one line of text to be bold and then the next to be italic, or some such.

Otherwise I'm going to have to create multiple fields and find some way to make one line up with another just to have multiple formats, and that's about ten times as much work as it seems like it should be.

[bn]

Hi,

look up "textstyle" in the dictionary.

Also here is a link to a sample stack with formatting options introduce in LC 5.5

http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11686

it is an attachement to the second post.

If you have more specific questions feel free to ask

Kind regards
Bernd

[Klaus]

Hi,

the dictionary has entries for "bold" and also "italic" with examples like:
...
set the textStyle of button "Label" to bold
...
So please dare to always use the dictionary first, it is really better than its reputation!


Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

Take five minutes. Trust me.

On a new card, make a button and a field. In the field, place three visible short lines of text. Anything will do. In the button script:

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on mouseUp
   repeat 10
      set the textStyle of line random(3) of fld 1 to any item of "bold,plain,italic"
      wait 10
      set the textSize of line random(3) of fld 1 to any item of "9,12,18"
      wait 10
      set the textColor of line random(3) of fld 1 to any item of "red,orange,blue"
      wait 10
   end repeat
end mouseUp

LiveCode can do anything you can think of.

Craig Newman

[SparkOut]

I can think of ending terrorism and world poverty. It can't do that on windows. Can we have feature parity please?

[bn]

Hi Sparkout,

I can think of ending terrorism and world poverty

you should use a different spelling checker:

it guess you meant:

I can think of ending tenorism and word poverty

That can be done on any platform, even operas...

Kind regards
Bernd

[dunbarx]

If all terrorists spent their time making fun stacks instead of contemplating murder, then LC would have solved that problem.

The poverty thing is dicier.

Craig

[A1Qicks]

Thanks for the help, guys, but I'm getting a "can't find" error "near 'Terrorists'":

on SolveWorld
put 0 into Poverty
put 0 into Terrorists
end SolveWorld

Somehow I don't think we can solve this one from here. Maybe with a missile Array?

[dunbarx]

I don't get a compile-time error with your handler, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Maybe the variables are weakly typed?

Craig

[SparkOut]

Maybe we should make them custom properties

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on solveWorld
  set the uPoverty of this planet to false
  set the uTerrorism of this planet to false
end solveWorld