This may call for a discussion, a dedicated lesson maybe, especially for
newbies, about the difference between setting the textStyle of actual text
within a field as opposed to the field itself. It touches on inheritance.
But I bet that many have struggled with what they see as impossible or at
Aha: I was trying to set it through the properties palette . . .
Richmond.
On 4/16/17 4:59 pm, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Richmond,
It works just fine here.
I’m using LiveCode 8.1.3
in MacOS Sierra.
I was able to do it both manually and programatically.
Here’s the code.
on
Hi Richmond,
It works just fine here.
I’m using LiveCode 8.1.3
in MacOS Sierra.
I was able to do it both manually and programatically.
Here’s the code.
on mouseUp
set the textStyle of field "TextField1" of this card to italic
put "Hi there" into field "TextField1" of this card
end mouseUp
