Hi Mary, I suppose you want to center those fields around a common horizontal baseline.
You might try this if that is what you want. Should work with different fonts and sizes. Two fields, one button. Kind regards Bernd ---------------------------------------------------------- on mouseUp local tDescent1, tDescent2, tBot1, tBot2, tDiff1, tDiff2, tRef local fFormattedBottom1, fFormattedBottom2 put 120 into tRef put item 4 of the formattedRect of line 1 of field 1 into fFormattedBottom1 put item 4 of the formattedRect of line 1 of field 2 into fFormattedBottom2 put item 4 of measureText(line 1 of field 1, field 1 ,"bounds") into tDescent1 put item 4 measureText(line 1 of field 2, field 2 ,"bounds") into tDescent2 put the bottom of field 1 into tBot1 put the bottom of field 2 into tBot2 put tBot1 - fFormattedBottom1 + tDescent1 into tDiff1 put tBot2 - fFormattedBottom2 + tDescent2 into tDiff2 set the bottom of field 1 to tRef + tDiff1 set the bottom of field 2 to tRef + tDiff2 end mouseUp ---------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
