On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
regards,At 11:08 AM -0800 1/15/03, Richard Gaskin wrote:This raises a point: when styles for a specified chunk are mixed, gettingIt depends: what do you want the above statement to do? A button can't have
the textstyle returns "mixed". That's not so bad and I understand why it
does that, but in such cases you cannot set the textstyle to the same value
you get from querrying it.
Any suggestions for a more self-constent form that would allow simple syntax
like this to work?:
set the textstyle of btn 1 to the textstyle of char 20 to 30 of fld 1
mixed text: the button's entire label has to be a single style or set of
styles.
So if char 20 to 25 of the field is bold italic, say, and char 26 to 30 is
condensed underline, the statement above is ambiguous: do you want the
button to be bold italic? Condensed underline? Bold italic condensed
underline?
Geoff Canyon
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I think the answer is never set the style of something that can have only one style to the style of something that can have multiple styles. In other words, the above command should be:
set the textstyle of btn 1 to the textstyle of char 20 of fld 1
Either the text run has a consistent style, in which case the result is identical to the earlier command, or the text run has a mixed style, in which case you are protected from that fact.
OR: you want to do something entirely different if the text run's style is mixed, in which case test for it.
I hope this helps. Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
regards,
Geoff Canyon
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