scripting challenge: Large/Smaller text size

[MisterX]

Richard,

Have tried the html way with <font size=+2> by anychance?

set the htmltext of fld "text" to "<font size+2>"&the htmltext of fld
"text"&"</font>"

Nope... that didn't work but it was worth trying ;)

and so here's the taoo's script in draft form ;)

(sorry, html is just so messy and there's no guarantee of there being a font
size tag anyway... while the field's text does... 

This function is now added to the editNO2 palette - thanks for the ideas
and a few more variants to come.

-- inc is the increment in size (can be negative)

on increasetextsize thisfield, inc
  put the length of fld thisfield into lengthtext
  repeat with x = 1 to lengthText
    get the textsize of char x of fld thisfield
    set the textsize of char x of fld thisfield to it + inc
  end repeat
  -- voila
end increasetextsize

the simpler the script, the easier it is to adapt for other functions... to
other uses like changing colors, lineheight, grids, etc...  

cheers 
Xavier


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 09:17
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: scripting challenge: Large/Smaller text size
> 
> Mr. Canyon and anyone else who enjoys an iterative 
> optimization exercise:
> 
> A common feature in apps that display text are 
> "Larger"/"Smaller" text size options. It seems simple at 
> first glance, but in practice it's hard to come up with an 
> especially fast version, given the need to take into account 
> any variety of varying sizes in the source text.
> 
> If any of you have a script for such a thing, I wonder if the 
> sort of group review process that was done with the clock 
> interface would lend itself to optimizing this?
> 
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Media Corporation
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