I've been working on text styling toolstrip for a while which has icons/menus for most of the common text styling attributes. It's not really great from the UI perspective but it might be worth a try to solve this one sepcific problem. If interested, contact me off list and I'll send it to you.
On Wed Feb 18 2015 at 11:41:22 AM Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
