Re: cant't find the textFont of formatted text?
On 2015-06-05 20:13, Dr. Hawkins wrote: inside of a loop through the fields, I have put thFld cr the formattedText of thFld \ cr exists(the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of thFld) put the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of thFld On a particular field, I get field id 3132 of stack rawForms Estimated Number of Creditors false How can this possibly be??? The error on the second line is button src_formsStack: execution error at line 89 (Chunk: can't find object), char 19 The 'formattedText' property of a field is a string so the expression: the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of thFld Does this: T1 = evaluate the formattedText of thFld T2 = word 1 to -1 of T1 return the textFont of T2 Now, because T2 is also a string, the engine tries to interpret it as a control reference. If you want to access properties of the styled text of the field, then you need to do so directly on the field itself: put the textFont of word 1 to -1 of field thFld As an aside, you also cannot use 'exists()' on font names - it is only for control references. Instead you can use: (the textFont of word 1 to -1 of field thFld) is among the lines of the fontNames Hope this helps, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: cant't find the textFont of formatted text?
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Mark Waddingham m...@livecode.com wrote: The 'formattedText' property of a field is a string so the expression: the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of thFld Does this: T1 = evaluate the formattedText of thFld T2 = word 1 to -1 of T1 return the textFont of T2 Now, because T2 is also a string, the engine tries to interpret it as a control reference. Shouldn't it return empty then? If you want to access properties of the styled text of the field, then you need to do so directly on the field itself: put the textFont of word 1 to -1 of field thFld OK, I see that's better (I had to go to formatted text at some point because something else wasn't working. Or maybe that was before I focused on words. I think it was when I was trying to null out the textSize textFont of the pasted text to force it to use the field's settings) (oh, and thFld was actually an id, not a field name) As an aside, you also cannot use 'exists()' on font names - it is only for control references. Instead you can use: (the textFont of word 1 to -1 of field thFld) is among the lines of the fontNames exists() entered late while debugging it. word 1 to -1 of theFld did it But I'm still troubled by this plowing through over 150 fields before it found one it didn't like this on . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
