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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: String Gadget Problem (help!)
Message-ID: <9797@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Feb 90 16:59:20 GMT
References: <1990Feb22.131859.17022@aucs.uucp>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Feb22.131859.17022@aucs.uucp> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes:
>I am having trouble with the text in string gadgets.  When I draw a border 
>around the text, the text always appears in the top left and covers up 2
>sides of the border ... like this
>
>    text text text text text|
>    +-----------------------+
>
>I know that I can fix this by specifying a border offset of -2,-2, but the
>problem with this is that I also use the same borders to surround text that
>goes into boolean gadgets.  In the b. gadgets I can specify the offset of
>the IntuiText in the gadget to be 2,2 which is great.  Is there anyway to
>do the same with the text in the string gadet?
>
>An alternative for me would be to keep my borders offset at -2,-2 and change
>the text in my boolean gadgets to be 0,0, but then the border would not 
>truly represent the hit box of the gadget.

There is no legal way to offset the string gadget text like IntuiText.
The best solution is to use two different (but similar) Border structures
that can share the same border points.

>Thanks in advance for any help or insights

     Peter
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