alignment of combo box label text

[james lewes]

How can one build a search field to be usable in a standalone distribution
similar to the supercard message window.

> From: Gary Rathbone <gary.rathbone at btclick.com>
> Organization: Interfusion Ltd
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 18:40:23 +0100
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: alignment of combo box label text
> 
> I've been looking at the "margins" property in the Transcript dictionary
> which states "use the margins property to control how close text within a
> button can come to the objects edges..."
> 
> Also, if you click the little blue arrow to the left of the 'Show
> Dimensions" label at the bottom of the button property box (basic tag), you
> can type in a comma list eg 8,12,16,24.
> 
> Saying that I wrote a script to change the margins of a combo box and it
> didn't change anything... I'll keep playing...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gary Rathbone
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Allen" <BradAllen at mac.com>
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 1:33 AM
> Subject: alignment of combo box label text
> 
> 
>> All my combo boxes look funny under Windows. The label text is
>> scrunched in the upper left of the button, making it difficult to
>> read. It looks a little better on the Mac, but I'd like to be able to
>> control the alignment of the label text of combo buttons. Is there
>> currently a way to do this?
>> 
>> I tried the following, but it didn't work: set the textshift of
>> button "CPU Model" to 3
>> 
>> Most of the text properties of the button don't affect the label, so
>> I can't change the alignment or the spacing between the label and the
>> top of the button. However, for some reason the font size and style
>> do affect the label of the button.
>> 
>> In Transcript, of course, it doesn't make sense to set the property
>> of a property, and a label is just a property, not an object unto
>> itself. Since the combo button uses labels instead of containing text
>> (like fields), some of the properties such as the textAlign don't
>> seem to apply. It wouldn't make sense to say "set the textAlign of
>> the label of button myButton", right?
>> 
>> Thanks...
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