conversion of field margins from older version to 8

Ralph DiMola rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
Tue Oct 25 17:15:59 EDT 2016


The stack does not seem to have this property. I get "no such property" if I
try a "put the margins of this card" in the message box although the card
does have margins in the inspector.

Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Bob Sneidar
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 4:49 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: conversion of field margins from older version to 8

Aren't the fields picking up the text formatting of the stack, unless
special formatting has been applied to the field? Does the stack have margin
properties?? If so, setting the stack properties should affect all the
fields with no special formatting applied.

Bob S


On Oct 25, 2016, at 11:28 , Ralph DiMola
<rdimola at evergreeninfo.net<mailto:rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>> wrote:

I'm late to the game here. I've been buried converting to LC 8 and have not
yet tried to figure this one out yet. This is because the margins on mobile
(iOS and Android) are still rendering the same as LC 6/7. For me this only
affect the IDE as I am not deploying to desktop. In the IDE the margins are
very large, like 10-20% on the top and bottom. I don't know about left and
right. I noticed the top/bottom margins immediately because I shade every
other line and I see only 75% of the lines in a same sized window. If I do
any global margin changes it will probably make mobile go sideways. I wanted
to report this as a bug this week but after this thread I'm going to have to
rethink this. I tried setting the margins in the message box but could not
get the text centered in the shaded areas, all I could do is cut off the top
or bottom of the text. I could reduce the margins and see 100% of the lines
I saw before but the text is jammed to the top or bottom or out of view.
Seeing that mobile was OK I was putting this off to a later date. I just
can't figure out this one and if I do how will it affect the mobile
presentation?

For me this is in the "Riddle me this Batman" territory.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net<mailto:rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>

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