alignment of combo box label text
Brad Allen
BradAllen at mac.com
Mon Sep 2 14:36:01 EDT 2002
>I've been looking at the "margins" property in the Transcript dictionary
>which states "use the margins property to control how close text within a
>button can come to the objects edges..."
>
>Also, if you click the little blue arrow to the left of the 'Show
>Dimensions" label at the bottom of the button property box (basic tag), you
>can type in a comma list eg 8,12,16,24.
>
>Saying that I wrote a script to change the margins of a combo box and it
>didn't change anything... I'll keep playing...
I had the same experience. The Margins property doesn't seem to do
anything with combo buttons, but it turns out to be useful for
placing the label text in standard buttons. This solves another
frustration I was having, after digging through the Rev Development
Guide trying to find some description of how to change the label
placement on a button. Thanks for the tip.
FYI, the documentation in the Transcript dictionary for Margins
contains an error:
set the margins of object to {pixels | top,left,bottom,right}
should instead say
set the margins of object to {pixels | left,top,right,bottom}
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