full justification in a text field

[Ralph DiMola]

I was just trying to make text break at slashes today. I put a zero width space(U+200B) after every slash. Although LC did break the lines properly the space was not rendered as zero width. It was more like a thin space and a half and looked terrible. Is this an engine bug? 

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 Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:50 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Peter Bogdanoff
Subject: Re: full justification in a text field

You’re welcome.

What I really wanted to do is to use a narrower space character, such as the "thin space, U+2009" which would allow much better alignment of the right margin. That character does display in LiveCode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character 

But that seems to require modifying the htmlText to insert that character. Maybe someone knows how to set/insert the htmlText of a character without messing with the html directly.

Peter Bogdanoff

> On Feb 10, 2022, at 1:03 PM, Curt Ford via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Peter, that works really well. Looks like it does require a monospaced font (I tried it with Monaco, looks good), so I'm not sure if my current client will want this approach, but it's nice to have a relatively simple native solution. Thanks so much!
> 
> Curt
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