Mostly for fixing the vertical offset of text. When you change the textHeight of a field, the text's offset from the top of the field changes. Adjusting the top margin, sometimes to a negative value, gives you another way to position the first line of of field, regardless of textHeight/textSize.
It may be the case that some of the new text formatting features can address this (spaceAbove, spaceBelow), but I haven't messed around with those too much yet. Your suggestion of "hiding stuff" has given me an idea. All these years, we've been wondering where missing socks go -- maybe they're behind a negative margin. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/16/12 9:31 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> Hi Pete: >> >> Maybe. I use custom development palettes, so maybe LiveCode's inspector >> doesn't like the negative values, but they've been working for me for some >> time now. >> >> set the margins of fld 1 to 6,-10,6,6 > > That's pretty cool. What do you use it for? Hiding stuff? _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
