strange text problem

Chris Sheffield cmsheffield at me.com
Mon Oct 31 18:02:55 EDT 2011


Scott,

Good idea. I haven't tried that. Will do so and let you know.

Thanks.

--
Chris Sheffield
Read Naturally, Inc.
www.readnaturally.com

On Oct 31, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Have you tried explicitly setting the textColor of all text in the field to
> your default before setting the textColor of the next string?  Perhaps
> resetting the text to the default (or empty) in between updates will get
> around the problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> 
> Recently, Chris Sheffield wrote:
> 
>> Wondering if anyone has a fix for this one.
>> 
>> I'm working on an iOS app for iPad. I've got a block of text (a story) in a
>> text field. I'm changing the color of sentences in time with audio that is
>> playing. As the color changes, the text is shifting, almost as if the size of
>> the text is changing slightly. All I'm doing is setting the textColor of a
>> chunk of text. Something like:
>> 
>> set the textColor of word 1 to 8 of fld "text" to blue
>> 
>> I am not applying a font size or style or anything like that. The problem does
>> not occur in the LiveCode IDE as far as I can tell. Only in the iOS simulator
>> and on the device.
>> 
>> Has anyone done anything similar? Can the problem be fixed? I don't know if
>> it's just a matter of finding the right dimensions for my field and/or a
>> combination of text size and text height? Right now the field is 600 pixels in
>> width. The font is Arial, size 20, and the text height is set to 28.
>> 
>> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>> 
>> --
>> Chris Sheffield
>> Read Naturally, Inc.
>> www.readnaturally.com
>> 
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