"FWIW, LC recently introduced a new property, the tabWidths, which will accept those values." - Richard
And I can finally drop my columnsToTabStops and TabStopsToColumns handlers... On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Richard Gaskin <[email protected]>wrote: > dunbarx wrote: > > Richard. >> ..."FWIW, LC recently introduced a new property, the tabWidths, which will >> accept those values." >> >> Are you implying that the tabStop list that Alejandro posted is somehow >> not acceptable? >> > > I have to admit that I've had so much going on in my office that I haven't > followed this discussion in detail. > > But I suspect that the problem stems from a feature in the IDE which may > not have complete error-checking. > > The tabstops property requires absolute metrics from the left edge of the > control; that is, each item is the complete measure from that edge, e.g.: > > 100,150,225 > > Recognizing how onerous this can be, RunRev recently added the tabwidths > property to allow us to specify only the widths, without having to add up > the widths for each value, e.g.: > > 100,50,75 > > Perhaps the IDE team recognize this onerousness long before the engine > team had a chance to address it with the new tabWidths property, and wrote > the Inspector in a way that effectively allows you to enter what we now > call tabWidths when setting the tabStops, translating them into true > tabStop values when the property is actually set in the control. > > If that hunch is correct, perhaps certain sequences of values trip up that > scripted translation, causing the errant behavior noted. > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: > http://twitter.com/**FourthWorldSys<http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys> > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ 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
