Vertically aligning text in a field

[Ralph DiMola]

I have been working on this for a while. I found out that the base line is
different on various platforms. This makes the calculation change on various
platforms. See bugs http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13551 and
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12176 .

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Terence Heaford
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 3:17 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: Vertically aligning text in a field

I think we are on a different wavelength here.

The code I was originally using from the forum was:

   --   put the effective textSize of fld id tID into tTextSize
   --   put round (((tTextSize - 24) * 1/3)) into tOffset
   --   put the formattedheight of char 1 to - 1 of fld id tID into
tFormattedHeight
   --   put round((the height of fld id tID - tFormattedHeight) / 2) into
tVerticalMargins
   --   put tVerticalMargins - tOffset into tTopMargin
   --   put tVerticalMargins + tOffset into tBottomMargin
   --   set the margins of fld id tID to 8,tTopMargin,8,tBottomMargin


This is the line I had to adjust

   --   put round (((tTextSize - 24) * 1/3)) into tOffset

I think it was originally 22 not 24.

Was this code yours or Bernd's.

Not sure how I seemed to have upset you but that was not my intention.

All the best

Terry


> On 19 Dec 2014, at 19:57, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What requirement am I missing that this isn't sufficient -- and 
> capable of handling multiple fonts and font sizes throughout the text?

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