RE: strange text problem
Is it possible that multiple white spaces between words are being compressed to 1? Are different types of white spaces (160 non-breaking space for example) are being changed to a 32(standard ascii space). Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Chris Sheffield Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 12:06 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: strange text problem Unfortunately that didn't work. I did try setting the width of the text field to the formattedWidth, which seems to help, but I've still got the shifting going on sometimes. It's almost as if by changing the color of a chunk it's causing the field to wrap its text differently. Very strange. Any other suggestions? -- 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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: strange text problem
In addition to explicitly setting the textColor, you might try explicitly setting the textHeight. You might also test with Courier to see if a different font set behaves similarly. -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:56 PM To: LiveCode Mail List Subject: Re: strange text problem 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 ___ 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: strange text problem
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 ___ 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 ___ 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: strange text problem
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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
