What about waiting for the fld that can embedd images then all you need to
do is fill in the gaps around the images. ie skip a bit of text in your main
fld that also holds the images. Then use a tranparent fld to add that text
over the white area's. It should be fairly easy to work out the area that
the image leaves blank around it.
> David Bovill wrote/ schreef:
> > Sjoerd wrote:
> >> Stil waiting for this option, again: Who wants to work
> together to make a
> >> nice script/ external for this?
> > Possibly. Thinking of it mores as linked fields, with text
> flowing from one
> > to another (as in Quark Express). Did this in HyperCard ages ago, and it
> > would be *much* easier in Metacard.
> >
> > I haven't played with the formattedHeight/width etc properties
> yet, so I am
> > sure there is someone on the list who knows how to do this much
> better than
> > me...
> >
> > I think a starting place would be to create a function which can take a
> > field of any dimensions, a nice big chunk of text, and figure
> out where to
> > cut the text so as the maximum number of words fits into the field. Even
> > better would be to have the keeplinestogether, or similar
> options, but for
> > now...
>
> I don't quite understand your script below, but I think I have
> the same idea
> as you in mind. I would think of a script and a layout like this:
>
> Layout:
> ------------------------¬
> | Field "t1" |
> | |
> ------------------------¬
> | Image 1 | Field "t2"|
> | | |
> | |-----------¬
> | | Image 2 |
> ------------------------¬
> |Field "t3"| Img. |Fld. |
> | | 3 |"t4" |
> -------------------------
> -- And there is also an invisible field "MeanText" with the whole text
> -- in it.
>
> We would need the following handlers:
> - createFields -- creates the fields in the right order and maybe
> according
> to the props of images and players. Ran every time the
> place and/or the size and/or the existence of
> images and/
> or players changes.
> - distributeText -- distributes the MeanText over all (already existing)
> fields. Ran every time the text changes.
> + getTextBack -- gets the fields back (into MeanText)
> + refillFields -- puts the whole MeanText into field "t1", and cuts the
> not-fitting text, and puts that into field
> "t2", and so
> on.
>
> I think that the createFields handler is the most difficult one to make.
> Also a demo-stack has to be made. Volunteers for any of these?
> > function wordNumOfOverflow fldObject, someText
> > ...
> > return wordNum
> > end wordNumOfOverflow
> >
> > Also not sure about the implications/possibility of using
> styled/htmlText...
> > anyway I think this is the key function?
>
> Hoping for any volunteers,
> Sjoerd
>
>
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