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Display it where?

richmond62

Looks all a bit decontextualised really.

A bit more explanation might make things easier.

richmond62

A simpler way to put borders round whatever text you want works like this: - SShot 2024-04-15 at 12.08.15.png - on mouseUp put the selectedText into SELEX replace cr with numToNativeChar(11) in SELEX delete the selectedText put SELEX after the selectedText set the borderwidth of the selectedText to ...

richmond62

on mouseUp put paragraph 2 to 3 of fld "f1" into PARAS1 delete paragraph 2 to 3 of fld "f1" replace cr with numToNativeChar(11) in PARAS1 put cr & PARAS1 & cr after paragraph 1 of fld "f1" set the borderwidth of paragraph 2 of fld "f1" to 4 set the bordercolor of paragraph 2 of fld "f1" to "purple"...

richmond62

One of the things that interests me as an English teacher is what, in LiveCode constitutes a paragraph. In English a paragraph can be represented in 2 distinct ways: 1. Each new paragraph is represented by a carriage return and an indentation (Tab key). 2 Each new paragraph is represented by a doubl...

richmond62

But we have to replace all CRs typed/pasted by users, and it add complexity.

Doesn't that mean that your border will go round all the text, not just the paragraphs you want?

richmond62

Are you wedded to using the border-whatevers?

Personally, after Zak's OP, I am not 'wedded', but I am 'in a relationship', as it does seem a good thing, if it is at all possible.

richmond62

Yup: vertical tabulation. Hex B.

Then, as I demonstrated above, NO paragraphs are understood at all.

richmond62

I tried lines and it is seemingly NOT possible to put a border round selected lines. It is, however, possible to set the backGroundColor to a set of selected lines. You can do this: - SShot 2024-04-12 at 15.28.58.png - on mouseUp set the backGroundColor of paragraph 2 to 5 of field "ff" to "green" e...

richmond62

Sacre m . . . : I even tried this:

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on mouseUp
   select paragraph 2 to 4 of fld "ff"
   set the bordercolor of the selectedChunk to "green"
   set the borderwidth of the selectedChunk to 3
end mouseUp

and got exactly the same thing.

richmond62

I don't suppose:
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   set the bordercolor of paragraph 2 of field "ff" to "green"
   set the borderwidth of paragraph 2 of field "ff" to 3
   set the bordercolor of paragraph 4 of field "ff" to "green"
   set the borderwidth of paragraph 4 of field "ff" to 3

richmond62

Rats: vertical tabulation looks lovely, but LC doesn't understand the text in terms of paragraphs:
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Possibly you could stop looking for paragraphs and start looking for incidents of whichever paragraph demarcator you were using.

richmond62

Running tests:

No CR symbols.

OK: linefeeds.

Replacing Linefeeds with Paragraph Separators makes the text look exactly the same.

AND, the bordering looks the same.

richmond62

Just been messing around, and it seems that "that ugly thing": - SShot 2024-04-12 at 12.52.51.png - is because of a carriage return, CR,, and if you can find a way to "fake' the new paragraph in another way that may not be a problem. "There are many Unicode characters that cause line breaks, such as...

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Not sure if these are of any interest or use at all: https://gist.github.com/callumlocke/41b210743990f07c2d96 " convert three r,g,b integers (each 0-255) to a single decimal integer (something between 0 and ~16m)" https://www.syncfusion.com/faq/windowsforms/colors/how-do-i-convert-a-color-to-integer...

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