You probably can. But when I started trying to do this, it didn't work for some reason. For example, in the IDE I create a field and I write some text into it. A bit of this text is
His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. I decide to make this red, bold, Perpetua, leaving the rest of the text in plain black Times New Roman. How, exactly? I can't get beyond Bold (command-B on the Mac). The colour swatches on the tool palette seem to have no effect, and I can't find a font menu. I completely believe that it's possible, but there is no intuitive way to do it that I can see straight off. In fact I haven't had to do this kind of thing much at all, which is probably why I picked such a wobbly solution. But I am willing to learn. Thanks Graham > On 18 Feb 2015, at 20:26, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > > On 2/18/2015 3:32 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: >> This text is static in my standalone, but I have often needed to >> change it during development. I have not found a simple way to do >> this, and I have now resorted to having a ‘plain text’ field >> (‘myText’) with the whole html of the target field in it, and at >> initialisation time I execute: >> >> set the htmlText of fld “myFormattedText” to fld “myText” > > I'm confused. Why can't you just edit the text and its formatting in situ? > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
