on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 xavier wrote: > only with monospace fonts... > but it works horizontal or vertically ;)
Monospaced only! I hoped for a more proportional solution. ;-) Jonathan Lynch wrote: > You could have a script do this: > - get the formattedrect of a block of text Do you mean the formattedrect of a single line? > - calculate how far from the left of the field that > block of text needs to be > - insert a few spaces to the left of the block of > text if i remember well, Colin inserted spaces between words, and set the styles of words to extended and condensed, but i could not find his code now. :-( > - check the formattedrect of the block of text again > - keep inserting (or deleting if you go too far to > the right) spaces until item 1 of the formattedrect > of the block of text is close enough to be where it > needs to be. In scrolling fields this could take a while. Did you had some timings available for this technique? In this way i could know beforehand if it is user's friendly. > - if you really want to be neurotic, you can use > spaces with a really small font size, so that the > width of a space is only 1 or 2 pixels! This idea is fine and very precise, but what will happen if you had to copy and paste this text elsewhere. You'll be carrying a lot of empty space with the copied text, unless you perform some cleaning up in copied text. :-( Thanks a lot to Jonathan and Xavier for sharing their insights! al Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution