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From: shani@TAURUS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Effect of setting text tool properties
Summary: Reselect the tool
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Date: 6 Sep 89 06:53:49 GMT
References: <37513@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
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In article <37513@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, gasp@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Isaac Kohane) writes:
>       the following behavior in Hypercard has me puzzled.
>...
>       set textAlign to center
>         type "Foo"
>....
>          set textAlign to right
>          type "Bar"
>....
>
> then both Foo and Bar end up right aligned.

This is exactly as if you choose the text tool from the toolbox and then
changing text style without rechoosing the text tool, because text style
reguards the whole of the text entered since the text tool was selected
(same thing will happen in MacPaint, for instance...), so all you have to do
is to add the line

  choose text tool

into your script, before the

  set textAlign to right

O.S.