Hi Pete: Maybe. I use custom development palettes, so maybe LiveCode's inspector doesn't like the negative values, but they've been working for me for some time now.
set the margins of fld 1 to 6,-10,6,6 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Peter Haworth wrote: > Hi Scott, > I just tried this in the Inspector and wasn't able to enter a negative > value (it beeped and didn't accept the minus sign). Do you have to do it > by script? > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
