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I can find only horizontal alignment of text in fields or buttons properties. Is it possible to vertically align it in LC?

snm

I am missing this. What is horizontal alignment in a text field? I know there is "left", "right" and "center" alignment.

But these are all, essentially, "vertical"

Craig Newman

Vertical allignment means top, buttom, center
Regards snm

Hmmm.

If I set the alignment of a field to "left", I see this as a 'vertical" thing. The several lines are aligned in this way. But that may be just (mis)interpretation.

What is meant by aligning them horizontally, then? Lines are already essentially horizontal entities. How do you modify this? You don't mean adjust the line spacing (the textHeight), do you?

Craig Newman

Hi snm,

snm wrote:Vertical allignment means top, buttom, center
Regards snm

sorry, no vertical alignment in LiveCode fields!


Best

Klaus

snm wrote:Vertical allignment means top, buttom, center
Regards snm

Not in this way, but for text fields ...
... under "Align" you have "Margins" ... try to play with this value

Guglielmo

How about doing the vertical alignment dynamically, i.e. by script:
It's a simple script and of course can be developed further.

Actually, Guglielmo's answer is the correct answer.

"endernafi's" answer makes no sense.

Kind regards,

Mark

I have a piece of code which produces text fields as a list.
The number of these fields is totally random and there are hundreds of them.
In these circumstances how should I play the Margins value manually?

And that piece of code worked like a charm, just this morning, it made a lot of sense for me.
Maybe it's not suitable for every occasion but with a little tweaking it should work.
Simple and easy.
And that snippet plays with Margin values, too, actually.


Best Regards,

Ender Nafi

Dear Ender,

You can set the margins by script. Setting the topMargin to a value derived from itself, as you do in the code you posted, doesn't make sense without lots of explanations.

Kind regards,

Mark

I couldn't get the reason behind, but anyways, you're the guru
It worked as of now for me, thus I did want to share.

Best,

Hi,

Surely, I appreciate that you share some code and I believe you when you say it works for you. Probably you set the topMargin twice or you can assume a constant value for the value when the script runs for the first time or something else.

Kind regards,

Mark

Ender's script makes sense to me.

Subtract the formattedheight of the field from its height --> the available empty vertical space
Divide by 2 --> equalize the amount of space at top and bottom
Add the original topmargin --> retain original top margin

I might leave off the last part, but it still works. It does assume the field height is more than the height of its contents.

Exactly, Jacque, that's the kind of explanation I meant. I think that your last remark about the assumption is particularly important.

Kind regards,

Mark

I can't think of any other way to calculate the vertical space. Seems like a functional script to me, and I don't think Ender needs to to feel bad about it. You mentioned a script should set the top margin, and that's what his script does.