Creating a BottomPattern from an image

[William Jamieson]

I want to see what Livecode is capable of doing when it comes to modifying text in a field. I hope to be able to place a graphic or an image of a graphic behind a word in a text field.

So far i have found setting:

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set the textstyle of word x of field "Post Text Field" of me to "threeDBox"

And I can adjust the 3D box using this line

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set the bottompattern of field "Post Text Field" of me to 100

in the Library Runrev says the syntax is this

set the bottomPattern of object to {empty | patternID | imageID}

So far I have tried this

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set the bottompattern of field "Post Text Field" of me to img "add.png" of card "icons" of stack "resources"

This error appears:

Script compile error:
Error description: seek: expected 'file'

Any suggestions on how to use this feature properly?

[Klaus]

Hi William,

well, you did not supply any ID!

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put the ID of img "add.png" of card "icons" of stack "resources" into tPatternID
set the bottompattern of field "Post Text Field" of me to tPatternID
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Best

Klaus

[William Jamieson]

Ok that must have been what I was missing. Thank you Klaus!