RE: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
roundRect graphic instead of a field border. 2p Hugh Senior FLCo From: Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com Subject: Text fields with rounded corners ? Richmond ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Richmond
On 05/10/14 15:47, FlexibleLearning.com wrote: roundRect graphic instead of a field border. 2p Hugh Senior FLCo From: Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com Subject: Text fields with rounded corners ? Richmond That doesn't help. That is a fudge, with a text field overlaying a

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: That is a fudge, with a text field overlaying a rectangle with rounded edges. What difference does it make? It's all an illusion anyway. Just asking. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words*

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Richmond
On 05/10/14 18:29, stephen barncard wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: That is a fudge, with a text field overlaying a rectangle with rounded edges. What difference does it make? It's all an illusion anyway. Just asking. Yes, of course a

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Sunday, October 5, 2014, 5:47:25 AM, Hugh wrote: roundRect graphic instead of a field border. 2p ..and group the two objects. Turn off the border and opacity of the text field, set the opacity and backgroundColor of the graphic. +2p -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Richmond
On 05/10/14 19:02, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, October 5, 2014, 5:47:25 AM, Hugh wrote: roundRect graphic instead of a field border. 2p ..and group the two objects. Turn off the border and opacity of the text field, set the opacity and backgroundColor of the graphic. +2p My

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Ken Ray
Does it have to be editable? If not, then you might be able to get away with a single roundrect graphic object and set the label of the graphic to the text you want. Granted you have limitations, but you can still manipulate things like alignment, margins, etc. Ken RaySons of Thunder

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Richmond
On 05/10/14 22:24, Ken Ray wrote: Does it have to be editable? If not, then you might be able to get away with a single roundrect graphic object and set the label of the graphic to the text you want. Granted you have limitations, but you can still manipulate things like alignment, margins,

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Richmond
On 05/10/14 22:28, Richmond wrote: On 05/10/14 22:24, Ken Ray wrote: Does it have to be editable? If not, then you might be able to get away with a single roundrect graphic object and set the label of the graphic to the text you want. Granted you have limitations, but you can still manipulate

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Paul Dupuis
I think what was being asked here is why shouldn't the roundRadius property (and roundEnds, roundHeight, roundWidth) apply to fields (and buttons, etc.) as well as just graphics It is a good enhancement idea and should be submitted to RunRev via the quality center (http://quality.runrev.com/) if

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sunday, October 5, 2014, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: That is a fudge, with a text field overlaying a rectangle with rounded edges. What difference does it make?

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
I agree that it would be a very nice feature to have. It would save time having to create the graphics workarounds described in this thread. Bill Vlahos On Oct 5, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Paul Dupuis p...@researchware.com wrote: I think what was being asked here is why shouldn't the roundRadius

Re: Text fields with rounded corners

2014-10-05 Thread Scott Rossi
One way to do this is to create a graphic with the desired appearance, export a snapshot of the graphic to a variable, set the text of an image to the snapshot data, and then set the backPattern of a plain field to the id of the image. I paired this with a resizeControl behavior applied to the