You might try the formattedRect property. Regards,
Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 5/27/15, 11:20 AM, "Peter Bogdanoff" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >Is there a function that returns the pixel location of a particular char >in a field? > >I¹m working in LC 6.1.3 to change a whole bunch of long one-line fields >of text to short one-line fields. > >As I go to LC 7, these fields are displaying text wider than before in OS >X (but not Windows) and I need that text to continue to line up under >images. > >I have, what¹s called in music theory, ³roman numeral analysis" which is >text. This lies under musical notation which are images. > >The text is currently a series of 1-3 chars separated by many space >characters in a long field. I¹m trying to program a method to put those >1-3 chars in their own fields, each field now displaying text where it >originally was. > >I tried substituting tabs for the spaces, but it doesn¹t consistently >display the same as before. > >The text must remain as text as it is searchable. > >Any suggestions? > >Peter Bogdanoff >UCLA >_______________________________________________ >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
