scripting challenge: Large/Smaller text size

[Mark Smith]

I think you should get the 'effective' textSize of char x in the 
handler, since if the textSize is inherited from it's owner, which 
maybe the field, the card, stack or whatever, it's own textSize will be 
zero....


Cheers,

Mark

On 2 Jul 2005, at 11:09, MisterX wrote:

> 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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