Thanks, Stephen, I'm still very much a LiveCode beginner and need to learn more about the ins and outs of text manipulation over the next few weeks, so I'd like to see that example stack. Meanwhile, as I have to deliver this demonstrator quickly (and as things like links have nowhere to go yet) the text menu works just fine. Best, Keith..
On 21 Mar 2011, at 19:31, stephen barncard wrote: > You could write a quick html text creator from scratch almost faster that it > would take me to find a demo stack online somewhere. We've all rolled a few > of our own tools while coding, it's so easy. > > Having said that, if you contact me off-list I will forward a stack that > converts text in a Livecode field to html and back again and includes a set > of cleverly-implemented formatting buttons that you could adopt. Off list > because I found the stack online via this list a long time ago and have not > been able to contact the author (and I modified it)- so I'm not comfortable > posting it online. > > On 21 March 2011 12:14, Keith Clarke > <keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk>wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> I realise it may be anathema to ask a development community how to do >> things manually but I'm creating a concept prototype and want to show >> example results from scripts, without having to write them all yet (before I >> get the budget!). >> So, what is the easiest way to manually format an individual word in a text >> field - to embolden, colour or add a hyperlink? Is there maybe a development >> plug-in that works as a rich text editor? >> Best, >> Keith.. >> _______________________________________________ >> > > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco Ca. USA > > more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
