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It’s a personal standalone that is currently being developed. The method which adds an overlay field is much simpler to use than the one which adds/removes ASCII 11 characters but it can be more complex if I need several highlights in a large scrolling field. At this stage of production, I haven't d...

Wow, very impressive! I didn't know about the formattedRect and your use of it opens up great perspectives for me. Also, the blendDarken ink is smart. In absolute terms, we could dream of a future version of LC which would manage a few more HTML tags, like "<br>" for example. In any case, thank you ...

Nice

This is a simplified version:

Thanks Craig, that’s a smart solution :) However, if I want to be a perfectionist, placing a semi-transparent element on top of text decreases the contrast of the text and it is no longer black. This is the difference with the concept of background , where the color is placed in a layer lower than t...

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:26 am

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

Oops! Right, that would involve placing CRs in the desired locations, and that would definitely be too complex and not robust enough.

I tried again using numToChar(11) and it seems to work. on mouseup replace cr with numToNativeChar(11) in fld 1 set the borderwidth of paragraph 1 to 4 of fld 1 to 3 -- > ok end mouseup But we have to replace all CRs typed/pasted by users, and it add complexity. Field script: on returnInField put nu...

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:27 pm

It is, however, possible to set the backGroundColor to a set of selected lines.

Right, I was experimenting in this direction. I think I'll continue like this.

Thank you for all your tests, richmond62

Possibly you could stop looking for paragraphs and start looking for incidents of whichever paragraph demarcator you were using. I don't particularly want to use "paragraphs" but I would like to apply a border (or a background for example) to several "lines" in a scrolling editable field. As it is ...

I also tried to play with htmlText and <br> without success

Hello, I had a look at " How do I style paragraphs in a field? " here: https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/58674-how-do-i-style-paragraphs-in-a-field So, with the following code, I have: set the bordercolor of paragraph 2 to 4 of field 1 to "green" set the borderwidth of paragraph 2 to 4 of field ...

Thank you richmond62.

BTW, my script deletes the "last image" because, when in development time, I didn't want to store lots a temporary images in my stack.

Klaus wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:07 pm

this is not possible!

Merci Klaus

(I must say that I still preferred the time when you answered me "It's possible, it's Livecode!" )

Hello How can I copy the backgroundPattern from one graphic control to another? Here is how I populate the backgroundPattern of a first graphic with an image: set the backGroundPattern of graphic "Graphic1" to (the id of last image) delete last image I would now a second graphic to have the same bac...

Thank you LCMark for this precise and complete response. In the specific case of launching a standalone, in which I have to wait for large substacks to load, what kind of script do you recommend? ---------------------------- kind A on preOpenStack insert the script of stack "CustomErrorReport" into ...

Hello, Just to be sure, do the following scripts do the exact same things, at the same time? on myProcess_A send "myProcess_B" to me in 100 milliseconds end myProcess_A on myProcess_B put the date into fld 1 end myProcess_B on myProcess wait 100 milliseconds with messages put the date into fld 1 end...