RE: Adventures in Unicode
Richmond, Why don't you switch to using revBrowser to do all your text display, font resizing, and font-family changes? Works like a clock... and you don't have to hold your breath. (But there's no revBrowser for mobiles.) Slava -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richmond Mathewson Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 3:03 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Adventures in Unicode possibly subtitled Wading through treacle. My 'eternal' Devawriter didn't display glyphs properly once they were entered via a slightly mephistophelian process into the OUTPUT field, and at least one of my beta-testers was getting quite crochety about it (mainly as I had had no epiphanies of late). Then, flashes of slightly murky light, and it occurred to me that upping the textSize of the output field, and then setting it down by one again . . . take a deep breath, you know Richmond is daft . . . and then, of course, one has to shift the unicodeText out of the field while it is resized and then return it . . . But; it worketh . . . follow me closely: set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of the fld HOLDER to the unicodeText of fld OUTPUT put the textSize of fld OUTPUT into BIGGY put BIGGY + 1 into BIGGGY set the textSize of fld OUTPUT to BIGGGY put empty into fld OUTPUT set the unicodeText of the fld OUTPUT to the unicodeText of fld HOLDER put empty into fld HOLDER set the unicodeText of the fld HOLDER to the unicodeText of fld OUTPUT set the textSize of fld OUTPUT to BIGGY put empty into fld OUTPUT set the unicodeText of the fld OUTPUT to the unicodeText of fld HOLDER put empty into fld HOLDER select after fld OUTPUT this is just about as clunky as one gets, but it seems the only way in which one can ensure unicodeText is represented properly. and, before you mention it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_Holder I'm off to the funny-farm for a quick frontal lobotomy after that one (which took me about a year to come round to). ___ 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
RE: Adventures in Unicode
Slava... Browser control – UIWebView Page 41 iOS 4.6.1 relase notes... Richmond, Why don't you switch to using revBrowser to do all your text display, font resizing, and font-family changes? Works like a clock... and you don't have to hold your breath. (But there's no revBrowser for mobiles.) Slava ___ 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
RE: Adventures in Unicode
Ah, thanks, John. I must look into this. S. -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of John Dixon Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 3:52 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: RE: Adventures in Unicode Slava... Browser control - UIWebView Page 41 iOS 4.6.1 relase notes... Richmond, Why don't you switch to using revBrowser to do all your text display, font resizing, and font-family changes? Works like a clock... and you don't have to hold your breath. (But there's no revBrowser for mobiles.) Slava ___ 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
Re: Adventures in Unicode
On 07/04/2011 10:44 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: Richmond, Why don't you switch to using revBrowser to do all your text display, font resizing, and font-family changes? Works like a clock... and you don't have to hold your breath. (But there's no revBrowser for mobiles.) I think the sheer effort of having to recode 2 years' work to use revBrowser might prove counter productive; може би аз съм малко глупов, but Ahm nae that gyte! Slava -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richmond Mathewson Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 3:03 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Adventures in Unicode possibly subtitled Wading through treacle. My 'eternal' Devawriter didn't display glyphs properly once they were entered via a slightly mephistophelian process into the OUTPUT field, and at least one of my beta-testers was getting quite crochety about it (mainly as I had had no epiphanies of late). Then, flashes of slightly murky light, and it occurred to me that upping the textSize of the output field, and then setting it down by one again . . . take a deep breath, you know Richmond is daft . . . and then, of course, one has to shift the unicodeText out of the field while it is resized and then return it . . . But; it worketh . . . follow me closely: set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of the fld HOLDER to the unicodeText of fld OUTPUT put the textSize of fld OUTPUT into BIGGY put BIGGY + 1 into BIGGGY set the textSize of fld OUTPUT to BIGGGY put empty into fld OUTPUT set the unicodeText of the fld OUTPUT to the unicodeText of fld HOLDER put empty into fld HOLDER set the unicodeText of the fld HOLDER to the unicodeText of fld OUTPUT set the textSize of fld OUTPUT to BIGGY put empty into fld OUTPUT set the unicodeText of the fld OUTPUT to the unicodeText of fld HOLDER put empty into fld HOLDER select after fld OUTPUT this is just about as clunky as one gets, but it seems the only way in which one can ensure unicodeText is represented properly. and, before you mention it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_Holder I'm off to the funny-farm for a quick frontal lobotomy after that one (which took me about a year to come round to). ___ 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
