mikef@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg) (05/21/91)
I have a stack with two backgrounds. In one I have a field with styled text. I am trying to cycle through the first background, grabbing the styled text and finally putting the styled text from all these fields into a single field in the second background ***keeping the styles intact***. I have done the following: on mouseUp go to first card of background "Info" repeat for the number of cards in background "Info" put field "Names" & return after temp (a var) go to next card of background "Info" end repeat put temp into field "Data" of background "MyText" end mouseUp but this does not put styled text into field "Data" !!!!! If I do the same script but now use Copy Text and Paste Text and keep visiting the field "MyText" in the second background, all is well!! Is it really the case that the put command does not retain styled text or is there some other thing I need to do in order to maintain the text as I typed it in?? Kevin Calhoun, don't desert me now!! Jeanne Devoto, help, help, help!! What is the story with HyperCard 2.1 and exporting styled text using the write command?? I was corresponding with someone whose name I will not mention at Apple who was working on XTND functions for HyperCard that would allow us to read and write styled text to files. Is this the case, or what extensions to the write command can we expect, considering the extensions to the read command we have been hearing about?? Love and Peace, mikef@samba.oit.unc.edu mikef@next1.oit.unc.edu
jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (05/29/91)
In article <3850@beguine.UUCP> mikef@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg) writes: >Is it really the case that the put command does not retain styled text >or is there some other thing I need to do in order to maintain the text >as I typed it in?? >What is the story with HyperCard 2.1 and exporting styled text using the >write command? You aren't missing anything: "put" only deals with the text, not with the styles. I have heard tales from some people to the effect that they were working on XCMDs that would bring the style record along with the text, but I have not seen any actual, working code that does this. Yet. 2.1 has some expansions to the write command - in particular, it lets you write to a file starting at a specified position. But it doesn't have anything that lets you write styled text to a file. Copy and paste works OK for moving text styles, although it is a little more cumbersome (and has the disadvantage that it clobbers whatever was on the clipboard) than get/put. -- ========= jeanne a. e. devoto ======================================== jdevoto@apple.com | You may not distribute this article under a jdevoto@well.sf.ca.us | compilation copyright without my permission. ______________________________________________________________________ Apple Computer and I are not authorized | CI$: 72411,165 to speak for each other. |