Passing Lists

[Ken Ray]

Intersting... that's not what I get; it works for me. I used the same script
(with the one exception of checking "ask" to see if something was entered)
on a field, and I get text getting bold and condensed. It seems to have to
do with the font - it worked for me with Arial and Lucida Grande, but not
with Copperplate.

This was on OS 10.2 with Rev 1.1.1.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: <miscdas at boxfrog.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Passing Lists


> [snip]
>
> Richard Gaskin writes:
>
> > Rob Cozens wrote:
> >
> >> Simple stack: one field of text, "Text", and one button "Set Style".
> >>
> >> on mouseUp
> >> ask "What style?"
> >> put it into theStyle
> >> set the textStyle of char 20 to 40 of field "Text" to theStyle
> >> end mouseUp
> >>
> >> All is well so long as the style is a single item (eg: "plain",
> >> "italic", "box", etc.), BUT try "bold,condense" or any combination of
> >> multiple styles and nothing happens.  If I run the script in the
> >> debugger, I get "Margin is not an integer".
> >>
> >> Who wants to be Sherlock of the Day?
> >>
> >> PS: I tried bold,condense and "bold,condense" with the same result.
> >
> > It may be that "condense" is not a supported Transcript text style
(although
> > the error message itself should be considered a bug -- what do "margins"
> > have to do with text styles?).
> >
> > I had thought only plain, bold, italic, underline, and strikeout were
> > supported.
> >
>
> WIN XP, MetaCard 2.4.3
>
> Using your script, in the Ask dialog I tried all of the following with the
> listed result:
> bold   bold was set
> italic  italic was set
> condense  error generated "Object: not a text style"
> condensed  no apparent effect
> expanded  no apparent effect
> expand  error generated "Object: not a text style"
> bold,condense  error generated "Object: not a text style"
> bold,condensed  bold was set
> bold,expanded  bold was set
> bold,expand   error generated "Object: not a text style"
>
> So, it appears that "condensed" and "expanded" are valid, but have no
effect
> (at least with the font I selected), and can be combined with other text
> styles in a single statement.
>
> miscdas
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