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From: dlugose@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Effect of setting text tool properties
Message-ID: <7628@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 89 17:59:46 GMT
References: <37513@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: dlugose@ecsvax.uncecs.edu.UUCP (Dan Dlugose)
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <37513@bu-cs.BU.EDU> gasp@bucsd.bu.edu (Isaac Kohane) writes:
>	the following behavior in Hypercard has me puzzled. If you have a
>script which goes as follows:
>
>	lock screen
>	choose text tool
>	set textAlign to center
>        type "Foo"
>        .
>         set textAlign to right
>         type "Bar"
>         unlock screen
>
>then both Foo and Bar end up right aligned. A similar phenomenon happens

   This behavior is as it would be in MacPaint.  When using the text
tool, you can't mix text characteristics within the same string being 
painted on the screen.  To mix text characteristics, you have to click
the text cursor in a different place, such as to the right of where
your first set of text ends.
   Just add "click at x,y" between the two strings which are to have
different characteristics.  Of course, figuring out exactly where you
want to click is a bit difficult.

Dan Dlugose
UNC Educational Computing Service