On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Bob Sneidar
wrote:
> Aren't the fields picking up the text formatting of the stack, unless
> special formatting has been applied to the field? Does the stack have
> margin properties?? If so, setting the stack properties should affect all
> the fields with no spec
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Of Bob Sneidar
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 4:49 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: conversion of field margins from older version to 8
Aren't the fields picking up the text formatting of the stack, unless
special formatting has been applied to the field? D
Aren't the fields picking up the text formatting of the stack, unless special
formatting has been applied to the field? Does the stack have margin
properties?? If so, setting the stack properties should affect all the fields
with no special formatting applied.
Bob S
On Oct 25, 2016, at 11:28
ubject: conversion of field margins from older version to 8
Among the quiet changes in 8 was a significant change in how field margins
are rendered, making many of my cards difficult to read.
Is there a simple script that can concert from old to new?
I suppose that this came about because the
The text measurement of LC 8 was a lot improved for using 'modern'
fonts. The _only_ disadvantage to see is the 'topmargin-bug'
depending also on the font used (has it 'good' font metrics?).
With my standard field-settings (LC's default) I use in
preopenCard or preopenStack or ... preopenControl ;
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Randy Hengst wrote:
> What about something like this:
>
>repeat with z = 1 to the number of fields of this stack
> set the margins of field z to "8"
>end repeat
>
Something like that.
The problem is that my margins in the label fields have been cus
What about something like this:
repeat with z = 1 to the number of fields of this stack
set the margins of field z to "8"
end repeat
be well,
randy
Randy Hengst
www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com
> On Oct 24, 2016, at 6:25 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
> Among the quiet changes in 8
Among the quiet changes in 8 was a significant change in how field margins
are rendered, making many of my cards difficult to read.
Is there a simple script that can concert from old to new?
I suppose that this came about because the default margins and placement
were utterly inconsistent across
