Re: Trouble setting the font of the text of a field

2016-08-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Right. The text of a field does not have the textfont property. Think of it as plain text. Bob S On Aug 11, 2016, at 13:45 , Dr. Hawkins mailto:doch...@gmail.com>> wrote: It did, it did! I had been trying "char 1 to -1 of the text of tgTg", which I suppose gets past the same way as "the text

Re: Trouble setting the font of the text of a field

2016-08-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto < revolut...@jaedworks.com> wrote: > set the textFont of char 1 to -1 of tgTg to empty > > That should work. > It did, it did! I had been trying "char 1 to -1 of the text of tgTg", which I suppose gets past the same way as "the text of" . .

Re: Trouble setting the font of the text of a field

2016-08-11 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 11:28 AM -0700 8/11/2016, Dr. Hawkins wrote: This code has been around a while; it's part of the maintenance routines. But now it's glitching. [...] set the textFont of the text of tgTg to empty "the text of tgTg" would be parsed as the text content of the field. Try using this inst

Re: Trouble setting the font of the text of a field

2016-08-11 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I've had better results with: set char 1 to -1 of the text of ... > On Aug 11, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > This code has been around a while; it's part of the maintenance routines. > But now it's glitching. > > tgTg holds the long id of a field > > Inside a conditional, the last

Trouble setting the font of the text of a field

2016-08-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
This code has been around a while; it's part of the maintenance routines. But now it's glitching. tgTg holds the long id of a field Inside a conditional, the last line of the code set the txtFnt of tgTg to "ArialMt" ck tgTg & cr & the long name of tgTg set the textFont of the te