First off I would like to point out that I am not concerned with content delivery either to old buffers (har, har) or to 'cough, cough, cough'.
SERIOUSLY: It really doesn't matter (Richard Gaskin) whether one uses fields or groups to the end-user: a 'good' programmer should make a product that is 'transparent' to the end-user insofar as the end-user should have no idea HOW the end-result was achieved. However (and this gets ugly!): Scrolling fields are not much good beyond reffing images using 'imageSource'. However, thanks largely to a hint I found somewhere by Jeanne devoto, there is a way to FAKE a scrolling text field which is much more effective: Either: 1. [this was forced on me by necessity when finding that Bulgarian text went 'wonky' in text fields - see earlier messages] convert the text into an image (log-winded and majorly tedious); then import, select and group (i.e.a GROUP containing ONLY the image file) and set up the group with a nifty vertical scroll button. Of course, within the group, one can have all sorts of OBJECTs/CONTROLS: I favour Images containing scripts to play videoClips and audioClips myself. This also has the advantage that one doesn't need to lie awake sweating at night (it is very HOT in Bulgaria during July-August) whether Fred Flintstone has the font "Choogie Boogie" installed on his computer. 2. Put your text into a non-scrolling field, align images, button, movie-players and so forth where you want them in the field, and group the whole lot: set up scroll bars on the group and you are 'off': experience tells me that in most cases you are completely 'off' as Fred Flintstone not having the font "Choogie Boogie" on his system completely mucks up the way you have aligned your objects in relation to the text field inside the group. Frankly, the 'imageSource' does not excite me very much; but grouping 'everything' inside a scrolling group is a "big turn on". Sincerely, Richmond __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html _______________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
