Maybe an extra right-justified field covering the column in question, set to scroll with the main field. There have been a number of posting in the past re getting two fields to scroll in unison, see the archives. More complicated but quite do-able. Keep in mind that you can set the scroll of an field even if it has no scrollbars.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 18, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Hi Jacque, > I'm converted! Just not quite 100% there yet. If I'm not mistaken, I have > the same right justification problem if I use a standard table. > > I'd like to use the para style properties because no scrolling issues that > way. I wonder if I can simulate the right justification.. maybe put the > text into a hidden field, get its formatted width then somehow position it > up against the tab on the right. I'm not using a monospaced font but > perhaps that could be made to work somehow. > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:46 PM, J. Landman Gay > <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > >> On 11/17/12 6:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: >> >>> Cool,that works well for what I want to do. I have one remaining issue >>> though. I have set tab stops and the xGrid properties to make it look >>> like >>> a table, but I need one of the columns to be right-justified and I don;t >>> think I can do that with this method since the textALign property applies >>> to the whole line. >>> >>> May be I need to look at the more complex, arraybased, styledText >>> property? >>> >> >> The array is just a different representation of what you can do with the >> individual commands. But you're right, alignment is paragraph-only, you >> can't apply it to tabs. Sigh. And here I'd almost converted you. :( >> >> Back in the olden days when we had no other choice, we'd use a monospaced >> font and add spaces to simulate column alignment. That's not so impressive >> any more, though in some cases it still works. >> >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> 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<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
