You'd be surprised how often XCoders resort to workarounds, but I do agree with you to some extent. There are many things in LiveCode you'd expect to just work while they don't.
-- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 26 jul. 2012 om 13:25 heeft Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: > On 07/26/2012 01:57 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: >> Hi Randy, >> >> You can put an opaque field of thesame size behind the transparent field and >> assign the same graphical effect to it. That way, you have one field that >> shows dropshadow behind the text and another field with a dropshadow >> following the outline. > > Fudge. > > Why does it seem that an awful lot of our time seems to consist of finding > "work arounds"? > > And, does "work arounds" really mean circumventing the limitations of . . . . > ? > > Somewhere (in Edinburgh, possibly) somebody ought to be keeping a tally of > the work arounds, > so that those work arounds are NOT necessary in the next recension of LC. > >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> >> Mark Schonewille >> >> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering >> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer >> KvK: 50277553 >> >> Economy-x-Talk is looking for an amateur painter/cartoonist/poet etc. >> Contact me http://qery.us/du >> >> >> >> On 26 jul 2012, at 05:09, Randy Hengst wrote: >> >>> Thanks Scott, >>> >>> That's kind of what I thought… but, was hoping for a way to assign to the >>> text and the outline of the field. >>> >>> be well, >>> randy >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
