Hi List:
Was hoping someone here might have some uncanny insight into how to solve a
text formatting dilemma...
Basic problem: I need to create two levels on indenting in a block of text,
but the text needs to always be directly editable and may span multiple
lines.
About a month or so back I
I haven't thought this through, but .
there are only 3 (or maybe 4) different indent cases.
create a suitable image for each case (i.e. normal, bulletted, 2nd
level, continuation, etc.) which is blank space of the appropriate
number of pixels wide
then insert an extra character at the
Hi Scott.
Unless you can find a way to embed a Microsoft object into a Revolution stack
(never mind a standalone) I don't think there is a way to do this. Unless CSS
is supported in HTMLText, I don't see how you can get any kind of special
formatting to work in a native LiveCode field. Now if
And the thing that really makes this difficult is the fact that the text
needs to be directly editable by users (cannot be in a locked field).
Any suggestions on how I might tackle this?
Can it be restricted to only editing one bullet at a time, or does the user
need the ability to click in
The firstIndent property of the field can be set to a negative number,
but that would only take care of one level of indenting.
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Sorry missed this part. Not sure if CSS supports hanging indents, which is I
think what you are shooting for.
Bob
On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
I can accomplish the first level bullet/indenting using a combination of
margins and firstIndent, but I can't figure out a way
On 9 Nov 2010, at 18:39, Scott Rossi wrote:
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I've been asked to implement two levels
bulleting/indenting, something like the following (hope it comes across):
• Main Bullet Item 1 that spans
multiple lines
• Main Bullet Item 2
- Secondary Bullet 1
- Secondary Bullet 2 which
Knowing nothing about CSS or HTML, I was able to get a text field to respond to
a basic CSS definition. However, it doesn't seem to pay any attention to the
margins and indents. Feature request anyone?
Bob
On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Hi List:
Was hoping someone here
And the thing that really makes this difficult is the fact that the text
needs to be directly editable by users (cannot be in a locked field).
Any suggestions on how I might tackle this?
Can it be restricted to only editing one bullet at a time, or does the user
need the ability to click
