Fld text vertical alignment - fld animation

[Phil Davis]

Okay, I was a little too quick. As I reread your request, you're looking 
for a way to grow and shrink the text without changing the rect of the 
field, correct?

I think your only other option is to have a blank line (containing a 
space, or maybe empty would work) at the top of each menu field, and let 
that first line grow and shrink in the opposite direction of the rest of 
the text, so the text remains centered vertically in the field. However, 
I messed around with that idea for a few minutes and was not able to 
make it work as well as the 'grow/shrink field' approach.

You could indeed kluge it together by having your menu text in 
borderless transparent fields that sit on top of fields with visible 
borders. That would give you the visual effect I think you're after.

Phil


Phil Davis wrote:
> Hi Bob -
> 
> See if this slightly modified version of your script gives you what you 
> want:
> 
> on mouseEnter
>   set the defaultCursor to hand
>   put the loc of the target into tLoc
>   repeat with i = 1 to 4
>     lock screen
>     set the textSize of target to (the textSize of target + 1)
>     set the height of the target to the formattedHeight of the target
>     set the loc of the target to tLoc
>     unlock screen
>     wait for .02 seconds
>   end repeat
>   put flushEvents("all") into temp
> end mouseEnter
> 
> on mouseLeave
>   put the loc of the target into tLoc
>   repeat with i = 1 to 4
>     lock screen
>     set the textSize of target to (the textSize of target - 1)
>     set the height of the target to the formattedHeight of the target
>     set the loc of the target to tLoc
>     unlock screen
>     wait for .02 seconds
>   end repeat
>   set the textSize of target to the ATT_defaultSize of target
>   set the defaultCursor to arrow
>   put flushEvents("all") into temp
> end mouseLeave
> 
> Best -
> Phil Davis
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Earp wrote:
> 
>> I have a group of flds that I'm using as a menu with a simple 
>> animation that grows the size of text when rolled over, and shrinks 
>> the size of text (back to the original) when the mouse leaves.  The 
>> problem is that the text does not stay vertically aligned in the fld, 
>> so the appearance is the text grows down rather than grows centered.
>>  
>> I can kluge the size of the fld to make it look right, but..........
>>  
>> Any ideas ??
>>  
>> Script at the group is:
>>  
>> on mouseEnter
>>  set the defaultCursor to hand
>>  repeat with i = 1 to 4
>>   set the textSize of target to (the textSize of target + 1)
>>   wait for .02 seconds  end repeat
>>  put flushEvents("all") into temp
>> end mouseEnter
>>  
>> on mouseLeave
>>  repeat with i = 1 to 4
>>   set the textSize of target to (the textSize of target - 1)   wait 
>> for .02 seconds
>>  end repeat
>>  set the textSize of target to the ATT_defaultSize of target
>>  set the defaultCursor to arrow
>>  put flushEvents("all") into temp
>> end mouseLeave
>>  
>>  
>> Tnx, Bob...
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