Passing information between cards

[Signe Marie Sanne]

Karen skrev:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build my first little application in Revolution on Mac OS X.
> It uses styled text, and I have the font type/size/colour/style available in
> drop-down menus.  However, I'd quite like to have a separate window that
> copied the typical Apple Cocoa font setting dialog, which has a font and
> size list, a size field and a preview of the result.  I have created a
> separate card within my application that does this, but I'm struggling with
> how to take the font choices from this card and apply them back to the main
> card.
> 
> The main card has the field "edtText" which is where the styled text is.  On
> the secondary card, I set gFontName and gFontSize to hold the font name and
> size, as determined by the users choice from the various fields.  What I
> have tried is:
> 
> set textFont of field "edtText" of card id 1002 of stack "Text Change" to
> tFontName
> set textSize of field "edtText" of card id 1002 of stack "Text Change" to
> tFontSize
> 
> (I'd like to just do this with the selectedChunk, but I'm taking it a step
> at a time!).  This doesn't have any effect on the text in the field.  I'm
> guessing that my syntax is wrong, but I wondered if anyone was able to help?
> 
Try: set textFont of char 1 to -1 of fld.......  (char -1 = last char)
set textSize of char 1 to -1 of fld.......
set textStyle of char 1 to -1 of fld.......

For these 3 text attributes you can set the attributes for chunks, whereas 
for textHeight you just set it for the whole field.

Hope this helps

Signe Marie Sanne