Button Labels

Jim Carwardine JimCarwardine at OwnYourFuture-net.com
Sun Dec 21 17:15:49 EST 2003


Sorry, I should have been more specific.  I meant check box buttons, where
the text is on the right side of the box icon by default.  I'd like to put
it on the left side... Jim

on 12/21/03 5:56 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> I'm not sure quite what you are referring to, as for me, button labels
> are always centered, but to change them there are 2 basic methods:
> 1. in text formatting, change the alignment to left, center or right to
> move the button's text.
> 2. change the margins. Still in the Text formatting section of the
> Inspector, you will see the margins entry which by default contains a
> single number. The tricky bit is that this can contain 4 numbers,
> separated by commas, specifying the left, top, right, bottom margins
> differently. If you enter only one number, that sets all four margins
> to the same value. Play around with entering and then editing 4 margins
> to get the result you need.
> 
> For the How do I... section of the manual, check out the Transcript
> Examples cookbook, and be sure to look at the See Also list every time
> you look something up in the Transcript Dictionary.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
> sarahr at genesearch.com.au
> http://www.troz.net/Rev/
> 
> On 22 Dec 2003, at 7:31 am, Jim Carwardine wrote:
> 
>> How do I put the button label on the left side of the button.  The
>> default
>> is the right side.  It would also be real cool if there was a smart
>> glossary
>> that would respond to ³What¹s a / Where¹s a / How do I  ________² for
>> beginners to reference... Jim
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