On 11/28/12 1:14 PM, Roger Guay wrote:
Jacqueline,
Thanks to you, I'm just beginning to appreciate how wonderful these
new features are. Has anyone written a demo stack of this stuff?
Like Pete said, it's really pretty simple. I did say something about
creating a demo some day but things are piling up here and it won't be
soon. And to be honest I'm not sure a demo is even necessary since the
principle is so generic. What used to be field-level properties can now
be line-level properties.
I haven't explored the array syntax yet, but it's just a way to set a
bunch of properties all at once. You don't need it. Basically all you
need to do is script in some line number(s) and the property will apply
to only those lines instead of the whole field.
One of the nicest new things is the separation of text font from the
other text properties. This is how MetaCard originally worked but it was
removed early on and I've missed it ever since. When it got removed,
changing the font also wiped out all the other text properties. We used
to be able to set the textsize of a stack without setting the font, and
the stack would take on the system font but use the assigned text size.
Now we can do that again. Ditto for styles: you can set the textstyle of
a field (or some of its lines) to "bold" without setting a textfont and
the text will always be bold regardless of what font is inherited. Or
you can change the font, and the style and size will still be what they
were set to before. It's all been separated into unique bits of data and
it makes things much easier.
The only thing that broke was a shortcut I routinely used to wipe out
all text settings. I used to change the textfont in order to remove all
text properties. That won't work now, but it's a small thing and the
tradeoff is worth it.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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