Speaking of 4 margin values, one of the most helpful (accidental) things I discovered with margins is that you can use negative values. Offsetting the top margin of a field with a negative value has saved my sanity when it comes to textSize/textHeight/margin headaches.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Randy Hengst wrote: > Thank you Mark S. > > Your comment helped me rethink the my assumptions. would you believe that I > can't recall ever putting four numbers in the margins entry. > > You know what else I didn't even consider???? Well, I didn't even think about > setting the margins via script. sometimes I feel like every time I learn > something new about LiveCode I forget something very basic. > > So, I keep learning all the basics and re-learning the basics. > > be well, > randy > ----- > All is well and I re > On Jul 16, 2012, at 6:31 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > >> Hi Randy, >> >> The text moves up if you increase the bottom margin, but that causes the icon >> to shift up too, so you need to increase the upper margin to move it down >> again. Just don't give up that quickly. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> >> Mark Schonewille >> >> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering >> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer >> KvK: 50277553 >> >> Economy-x-Talk is looking for an amateur painter/cartoonist/poet etc. Contact >> me http://qery.us/du >> >> >> >> On 17 jul 2012, at 01:27, Randy Hengst wrote: >> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> I have tried messing with the margins setting however, when I change the >>> setting, the name of the button AND the icon shifts. >>> >>> I can't keep the icon & the name in the middle of the button. >>> >>> be well, >>> randy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
