Have Runrev been requested to provide vertically aligned text as part of LC as I presume they have ALL the dimensional information available to calculate this?
All the best Terry > On 16 Dec 2014, at 11:04, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> > wrote: > > Hi Terry, > > There's a long discussion about this on the forum. I believe I did a good > attempt, but Bernd's solution was probably the most reliable. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Installer Maker for LiveCode: > http://qery.us/468 > > Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" > http://qery.us/3fi > > LiveCode on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ > > On 12/16/2014 11:54, Terence Heaford wrote: >> Is there a definitive calculation that correctly sets the position of text >> vertically in a field? >> >> I am using LC 6.7. >> >> I have come across a few ideas like the one below that all appear to use an >> arbitrary offset to the margins, is there a method to calculate this >> accurately? >> >> put the effective textSize of fld id tID into tTextSize >> -- put round (((tTextSize - 22) * 1/3)) into tOffset >> put round (((tTextSize - 24) * 1/3)) into tOffset >> put the formattedheight of char 1 to - 1 of fld id tID into >> tFormattedHeight >> put round((the height of fld id tID - tFormattedHeight) / 2) into >> tVerticalMargins >> put tVerticalMargins - tOffset into tTopMargin >> put tVerticalMargins + tOffset into tBottomMargin >> set the margins of fld id tID to 8,tTopMargin,8,tBottomMargin >> >> All the best >> >> Terry > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
