Re: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? -= Mike On Apr 1, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Curt Ford wrote: My client's project has long text fields, in which are a number of separate lines that, in the original Word files, had boxes around them. The box style in LiveCode is too tight around the text for their taste, so I've been creating graphic rectangles and positioning them by hand. An issue has come up where wrapping is inconsistent on different systems running XP; when the wrapping changes, the positioning of the graphics over the text is wrong. Is there a way to position the graphics in relation to a given line in a field on the fly? A combination of the selectedLoc and formattedHeight functions should allow you to derive a rect. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Michael- Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:52:57 AM, you wrote: I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? The formattedWidth of the longest line plus the left. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
On Apr 2, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Michael Doub wrote: I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? [Slaps forehead.] Now I remember what I was trying to remember in my first post. Try using the formattedRect of the chunk of text. That will even take into account the scroll of the field. Devin On Apr 1, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Curt Ford wrote: My client's project has long text fields, in which are a number of separate lines that, in the original Word files, had boxes around them. The box style in LiveCode is too tight around the text for their taste, so I've been creating graphic rectangles and positioning them by hand. An issue has come up where wrapping is inconsistent on different systems running XP; when the wrapping changes, the positioning of the graphics over the text is wrong. Is there a way to position the graphics in relation to a given line in a field on the fly? A combination of the selectedLoc and formattedHeight functions should allow you to derive a rect. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ 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 Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Thanks Mark. I think it is going to be one of those days that I might as well stop looking for the forest or the trees. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Michael- Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:52:57 AM, you wrote: I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? The formattedWidth of the longest line plus the left. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
This works really well for me and it will handle multiple selected word on different lines etc. I had a grc that was a dashed box: on mouseUp put the formattedRect of the selectedChunk into tRect put 4 into tMargin put item 1 of tRect - tMargin into item 1 of tRect put item 3 of tRect + tMargin + 3 into item 3 of tRect put item 4 of tRect + tMargin into item 4 of tRect set the rect of graphic Box to tRect end mouseUp -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. I think it is going to be one of those days that I might as well stop looking for the forest or the trees. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Michael- Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:52:57 AM, you wrote: I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? The formattedWidth of the longest line plus the left. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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
Re: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Thanks Tom. Mark, what are some of the complications that you mentioned about scrolling fields? I am thinking about trying to emulate the little IOS selection handles. I can see going from the selection to find a location to put the pin graphic, but I am not quite sure how to modify the selection to track the pin movement. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: This works really well for me and it will handle multiple selected word on different lines etc. I had a grc that was a dashed box: on mouseUp put the formattedRect of the selectedChunk into tRect put 4 into tMargin put item 1 of tRect - tMargin into item 1 of tRect put item 3 of tRect + tMargin + 3 into item 3 of tRect put item 4 of tRect + tMargin into item 4 of tRect set the rect of graphic Box to tRect end mouseUp -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. I think it is going to be one of those days that I might as well stop looking for the forest or the trees. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Michael- Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:52:57 AM, you wrote: I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? The formattedWidth of the longest line plus the left. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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 ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Michael, I missed the beginning of this thread so not 100% sure of what you're trying to achieve but have you considered - set the imagesource of char x of line y of field xyz to 1234? That makes the image appear at the specified location and it scrolls along with everything else. You may also have to use the textshift property of the same char to align the image vertically. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tom. Mark, what are some of the complications that you mentioned about scrolling fields? I am thinking about trying to emulate the little IOS selection handles. I can see going from the selection to find a location to put the pin graphic, but I am not quite sure how to modify the selection to track the pin movement. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: This works really well for me and it will handle multiple selected word on different lines etc. I had a grc that was a dashed box: on mouseUp put the formattedRect of the selectedChunk into tRect put 4 into tMargin put item 1 of tRect - tMargin into item 1 of tRect put item 3 of tRect + tMargin + 3 into item 3 of tRect put item 4 of tRect + tMargin into item 4 of tRect set the rect of graphic Box to tRect end mouseUp -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. I think it is going to be one of those days that I might as well stop looking for the forest or the trees. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Michael- Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:52:57 AM, you wrote: I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? The formattedWidth of the longest line plus the left. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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 ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
imagesource replaces a text character with a graphic. The OP wanted a square with transparency to surround a word or phrase in a text field that looks better than the built in function. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Michael, I missed the beginning of this thread so not 100% sure of what you're trying to achieve but have you considered - set the imagesource of char x of line y of field xyz to 1234? That makes the image appear at the specified location and it scrolls along with everything else. You may also have to use the textshift property of the same char to align the image vertically. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tom. Mark, what are some of the complications that you mentioned about scrolling fields? I am thinking about trying to emulate the little IOS selection handles. I can see going from the selection to find a location to put the pin graphic, but I am not quite sure how to modify the selection to track the pin movement. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: This works really well for me and it will handle multiple selected word on different lines etc. I had a grc that was a dashed box: on mouseUp put the formattedRect of the selectedChunk into tRect put 4 into tMargin put item 1 of tRect - tMargin into item 1 of tRect put item 3 of tRect + tMargin + 3 into item 3 of tRect put item 4 of tRect + tMargin into item 4 of tRect set the rect of graphic Box to tRect end mouseUp -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. I think it is going to be one of those days that I might as well stop looking for the forest or the trees. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Michael- Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:52:57 AM, you wrote: I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? The formattedWidth of the longest line plus the left. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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 ___ 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 -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Ok, thanks stephen, as I said I missed the beginning of this thread. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:46 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: imagesource replaces a text character with a graphic. The OP wanted a square with transparency to surround a word or phrase in a text field that looks better than the built in function. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Michael, I missed the beginning of this thread so not 100% sure of what you're trying to achieve but have you considered - set the imagesource of char x of line y of field xyz to 1234? That makes the image appear at the specified location and it scrolls along with everything else. You may also have to use the textshift property of the same char to align the image vertically. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tom. Mark, what are some of the complications that you mentioned about scrolling fields? I am thinking about trying to emulate the little IOS selection handles. I can see going from the selection to find a location to put the pin graphic, but I am not quite sure how to modify the selection to track the pin movement. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: This works really well for me and it will handle multiple selected word on different lines etc. I had a grc that was a dashed box: on mouseUp put the formattedRect of the selectedChunk into tRect put 4 into tMargin put item 1 of tRect - tMargin into item 1 of tRect put item 3 of tRect + tMargin + 3 into item 3 of tRect put item 4 of tRect + tMargin into item 4 of tRect set the rect of graphic Box to tRect end mouseUp -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. I think it is going to be one of those days that I might as well stop looking for the forest or the trees. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Michael- Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:52:57 AM, you wrote: I must be missing something. selectedLoc gets you the upper left corner. FormattedHeight will allow computation of the lowerLeft. How do you get the right side? The formattedWidth of the longest line plus the left. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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 ___ 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 -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Michael Doub mikedoub@... writes: Thanks Tom. Mark, what are some of the complications Don't know about iOS, maybe there are other things to take care of, but in general you have to catch all the scrollbar events: scrollbarDrag, scrollbarLineInc, scrollbarLineDec, scrollbarPageInc, scrollbarPageDec, and change the location of the graphic accordingly. And if the field is editable you also have to handle the up-arrow, down-arrow keys. And account for the fact that the user can insert and delete lines. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
oh... and don't forget to copy the graphic at the borders of the field. ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Thanks Mark and Tom for your advice. The original question was how to create a graphic around some selected text. I think that has be answered. I diverted the thread a bit to almost the opposite. I want to have two graphics (one at the beginning and one at the end of the selected text) control the selection text. I see how to position the graphics at the edge of the text as the starting point. And I know how to get the location of the graphics. What I don't know is how to make the selection of the text be changed based on a new rect created from the graphics locations. -= Mike On Apr 2, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: oh... and don't forget to copy the graphic at the borders of the field. ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Mark Wieder mwieder@... writes: you have to catch all the scrollbar events: scrollbarDrag, scrollbarLineInc, scrollbarLineDec, scrollbarPageInc, scrollbarPageDec Ack! Correcting myself... scrollbarDrag handles all those messages as long as there aren't other handlers for them. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Thomas McGrath III mcgrath3@... writes: put the formattedRect of the selectedChunk into tRect Thanks for the pointer to formattedRect. As long as you can specify the chunk this works great (minus the scrolling complications). -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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
positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
My client's project has long text fields, in which are a number of separate lines that, in the original Word files, had boxes around them. The box style in LiveCode is too tight around the text for their taste, so I've been creating graphic rectangles and positioning them by hand. An issue has come up where wrapping is inconsistent on different systems running XP; when the wrapping changes, the positioning of the graphics over the text is wrong. Is there a way to position the graphics in relation to a given line in a field on the fly? Curt ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Curt Ford wrote: My client's project has long text fields, in which are a number of separate lines that, in the original Word files, had boxes around them. The box style in LiveCode is too tight around the text for their taste, so I've been creating graphic rectangles and positioning them by hand. An issue has come up where wrapping is inconsistent on different systems running XP; when the wrapping changes, the positioning of the graphics over the text is wrong. Is there a way to position the graphics in relation to a given line in a field on the fly? Curt, Would the selectedRect of a text chunk do what you want? I could imagine locking the screen, getting the selectedRect, drawing the box based on that, then unlocking the screen. Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Devin Asay devin_asay@... writes: Would the selectedRect of a text chunk do what you want? Yeah, wouldn't that be nice? Is there an enhancement request for this? Right now it's a bit of a complicated algorithm, and requires a fixed line height in a field. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Curt Ford wrote: My client's project has long text fields, in which are a number of separate lines that, in the original Word files, had boxes around them. The box style in LiveCode is too tight around the text for their taste, so I've been creating graphic rectangles and positioning them by hand. An issue has come up where wrapping is inconsistent on different systems running XP; when the wrapping changes, the positioning of the graphics over the text is wrong. Is there a way to position the graphics in relation to a given line in a field on the fly? A combination of the selectedLoc and formattedHeight functions should allow you to derive a rect. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Devin Asay devin_asay@... writes: Would the selectedRect of a text chunk do what you want? Yeah, wouldn't that be nice? Is there an enhancement request for this? Right now it's a bit of a complicated algorithm, and requires a fixed line height in a field. Wow, I must have hallucinated the existence of this property, or projected my intense desire onto reality. I guess I was thinking of the selectedLoc, which only gives you the top left corner of the text selection. Still, you can use this information to derive a rectangle, subject to the complications Mark mentions. No more making things up from my malleable memory! Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Ah, this is getting me pretty close: select line 3 of fld Field2 set the left of graphic Rectangle to item 1 of the selectedLoc - 10 set the top of graphic Rectangle to item 2 of the selectedLoc - 10 select empty And checking the formattedHeight of the selectedLine will let me adjust the size of the rectangle in accordance with any length or wrapping issues of the line to box up. Thanks everyone! Curt ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
Curt Ford cford@... writes: Ah, this is getting me pretty close: select line 3 of fld Field2 set the left of graphic Rectangle to item 1 of the selectedLoc - 10 set the top of graphic Rectangle to item 2 of the selectedLoc - 10 select empty And checking the formattedHeight of the selectedLine will let me adjust the size of the rectangle in accordance with any length or wrapping issues of the line to box up. Don't forget to adjust for scrolling as well. And it gets slightly more complicated if you select multiple lines. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: positioning graphics in relation to a line in a text field
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Don't forget to adjust for scrolling as well. And it gets slightly more complicated if you select multiple lines. To simplify this I'd use a non-scrolling text field in a scrolling group with the field (sized to fit all the content) and rects in it. As long as the user is using the scrollbar(s) this is easy. If the user will drag-select text then this becomes more difficult. ___ 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
