Thanks Kay, I'll five that a whirl. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Kay C Lan <[email protected]> wrote: > Pete, > > How far are you prepared to kludge this? > > Set the margin for the field to 0 > Under Basic Properties unclick 'fixedLineHeight' and set the > 'firstIndent' to 4 (or something you like). > > Now the part that gets ugly: > > For the content of your field insert in the line before your content a > ` character - the character to the left of 1 on a qwerty keyboard. And > add and extra line at the end of your content that is just a period - > . > > You now need to set the text size of the first and last line to 4 or > thereabouts. Unfortunately highlighting the character in question and > selecting Size -> Other... from the Text Menu on my OS X 10.8.2 > running LC 5.5.3 doesn't do anything, so I select 8 point size > instead. Then in the Message box I: > > put the htmlText of fld "Kludge" into tStore > replace "8" with "6" in tStore > set the htmlText of fld "Kludge" to tStore > > On my set up, setting the background color of a line misses one pixel > on the left, but goes all the way to the right. I can not see or > select the first and last lines. It is very close to resembling a > highlighted line. > > All you'll need to worry about is keeping track of what is real > content and what is dummy padding. > > HTH > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
