Re: strange text problem

2011-11-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/1/11 11:06 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Unfortunately that didn't work. I did try setting the width of the text field to the formattedWidth, which seems to help, but I've still got the shifting going on sometimes. It's almost as if by changing the color of a chunk it's causing the field to wr

RE: strange text problem

2011-11-01 Thread Mark Powell
...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:56 PM To: LiveCode Mail List Subject: Re: strange text problem Have you tried explicitly setting the textColor of all text in the field to your default before setting the textColor of the next string? Perhaps resetting the text to the

RE: strange text problem

2011-11-01 Thread Ralph DiMola
: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Chris Sheffield Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 12:06 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: strange text problem Unfortunately that didn't work. I did try setting the width of the text field t

Re: strange text problem

2011-11-01 Thread Chris Sheffield
Unfortunately that didn't work. I did try setting the width of the text field to the formattedWidth, which seems to help, but I've still got the shifting going on sometimes. It's almost as if by changing the color of a chunk it's causing the field to wrap its text differently. Very strange. Any

Re: strange text problem

2011-10-31 Thread Chris Sheffield
Scott, Good idea. I haven't tried that. Will do so and let you know. Thanks. -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com On Oct 31, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Have you tried explicitly setting the textColor of all text in the field to > your default before setting

Re: strange text problem

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Have you tried explicitly setting the textColor of all text in the field to your default before setting the textColor of the next string? Perhaps resetting the text to the default (or empty) in between updates will get around the problem. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX

strange text problem

2011-10-31 Thread Chris Sheffield
Wondering if anyone has a fix for this one. I'm working on an iOS app for iPad. I've got a block of text (a story) in a text field. I'm changing the color of sentences in time with audio that is playing. As the color changes, the text is shifting, almost as if the size of the text is changing s