Re: Setting the textStyle of content of custom properties

2014-02-18 Thread Charles Szasz
Hi Craig, Thanks for responding to my request for help! I would have emailed you earlier but my work has kept me away from coding. I tried the following: set the styledText of customProperties[uMyLabel] of button check1ps to “bold But that doesn’t not work. I have a six words in a custom

Re: Setting the textStyle of content of custom properties

2014-02-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Charles Szasz wrote: set the styledText of customProperties[uMyLabel] of button check1ps to “bold But that doesn’t not work. The textStyle is a property of objects, or of chunks of text in a field, but the values stored in custom properties are just raw data, so they have no properties of

Re: Setting the textStyle of content of custom properties

2014-02-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
I don’t think you can set the properties of a property like that. Also, I was under the impression that styledText is a field property and not one that belonged to a button. In fact the dictionary says, set the styledText of field to styledArray” indicating that it can only be used with a

Re: Setting the textStyle of content of custom properties

2014-02-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
uurp sorry too many beer. I forgot to tell you what to do with the styled text once you put the text into a field and set the styledText to that. Put the htmlText of the field into your property. You might be able to use rtfText as well, but you can do wonderful things with htmlText like embed

Re: Setting the textStyle of content of custom properties

2014-02-13 Thread dunbarx
Hi. The styledText or the htmlText should preserve the style. Run a few experiments. Craig -Original Message- From: Charles Szasz csz...@me.com To: use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Thu, Feb 13, 2014 3:07 pm Subject: Setting the textStyle of content of custom