full justification in a text field

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Wed Feb 9 17:47:27 EST 2022


On 2/9/2022 5:24 PM, Curt Ford via use-livecode wrote:
> This seems like an awfully basic question, but is it possible to have 
> text with full justification in a field?
>
> I've looked at using WordLib, but this client's text has lots of fussy 
> formatting (background colors, different colors for individual 
> characters) that didn't come through well.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> Curt

See the Dictionary entry for textAlign:

set the textAlign [of line] of {button | field} to {left | center | right}

There is no justified option. There is a REALLY old enhancement request 
at https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4714



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