Thanks Paul. Yes, I was hoping the new text properties might accommodate more robust alignment. I wound up using some basic tab stops and just living with the result.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design -------- Original message -------- Subject: Re: Multiple Alignments In One Line? From: Paul Hibbert <l...@pbh.on-rev.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> CC: Scott, I'm sure you already know that you would usually do this with tabs in a word processor, AFAIK you can't normally apply both left and right text align on the same line. Looking at the tabStops property in LC, there doesn't appear to be a way to control left and right alignment of the stops, it looks like they only work well with left align. Dictionary Quote: Setting the field's textAlign to center or right may cause unexpected results when using tab stops. If you use a mono-spaced font for the field, then you could just count the number of chars and just add spaces, not elegant, but could work, although I'd guess you would prefer elegant! I had a play with scripting the tabStop to match a text selection to achieve a similar result (without resorting to mono-spaced fonts). It's not perfect, it works, but it may not be exactly what you are looking for, the test stack is here if it helps… https://www.dropbox.com/s/twas5ofcko73r53/Tab%20Stops%20Test.livecode Paul On 2013-04-03, at 3:05 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Anybody know if it's possible to use two different text align settings on > the same line using the (newish) styledText property? > > I want to have the first few words of a line aligned left in the field, and > the last few words aligned right. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX/UI Design _______________________________________________ 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
