Undos (vs. text alignment) [was: Script Editor]

[Jim Ault]

On 5/25/08 7:03 AM, "Richmond Mathewson" <geradamas at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I use the following script:
> 
> get the selectedText of fld "fTEXT"
>   set the textColor of the selectedText to green
> 
> it does what I expect it to (sets the textColor to the
> selected part of the text in fld "fTEXT" to green)
> 
> BUT the following script:
> 
> get the selectedText of fld "fTEXT"
>   set the textAlign of the selectedText to right
> 
> does NOT do what I expect it to (right-align the
> selected part of the text in fld "fTEXT")
> 
> which is a bit of a b****r, and seems a bit
> inconsistent.
   It is actually logical since buttons and fields are the only objects to
have a textAlign property, according to the docs.

Word processors extend this to paragraphs, but not to any selected text.  So
technically, the word processor will set the alignment of the *paragraphs*
included in the selected text, not the text characters themselves.

Paragraphs can contain multiple lines.
Rev does not have paragraph objects.
Tables are another issue, eg. can a table cell contain a paragraph, or
multiple paragraphs, each with their own alignment properties?

Hope this helps.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas