Removing text styles

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Jim Hurley <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:
> When I run the following handler, the style of the
> text is not plain. 
> It retains the text shift.
> 
> on mouseUp
> 
>    put "Now is the time." into field 1
>    set the textshift of char 3 in  field 1 to 3
>    set the textstyle of char 1 to -1 of field 1 to
> "plain"
> 
> end mouseUp
> 
> However, if I select the text and, from the Text
> Menu, select "Plain 
> Text", the style does indeed revert to Plain text.
> 
> I would have expected the menu action to be the same
> as the command 
> line in the handler.
> 
> How would one remove the textshift of a field
> programmatically?
> 
> Jim
> 

Hi Jim,

Try this :

  set the textStyle of char 1 to -1 of field \
      "Foobar" to empty -- not "plain"

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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