On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Curt Ford wrote: > My client's project has long text fields, in which are a number of separate > lines that, in the original Word files, had boxes around them. The "box" > style in LiveCode is too tight around the text for their taste, so I've been > creating graphic rectangles and positioning them by hand. > > An issue has come up where wrapping is inconsistent on different systems > running XP; when the wrapping changes, the positioning of the graphics over > the text is wrong. > > Is there a way to position the graphics in relation to a given line in a > field on the fly?
Curt, Would the selectedRect of a text chunk do what you want? I could imagine locking the screen, getting the selectedRect, drawing the box based on that, then unlocking the screen. Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ 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
