[Laszlo-user] Letter spacing, Paragraph spacing

[Benjamin Shine]

Easy answer:
Put each block of text in its own text view, inside a container that  
has a simplelayout and spacing="10". That will put each paragraph 10  
pixels below the bottom of the previous one.

Nasty answer:
If you want leading within a paragraph, you can set it, but in a non- 
portable way that will probably cause my fellow developers to throw  
useless promotional demo-ware cd roms at me for even mentioning this  
technique.
The mechanism that will currently allow you to specify leading is  
flash-specific, and not officially supported in the OpenLaszlo  
platform. It probably won't be available in DHTML in early versions  
of the Legals (multiple runtimes) release.

The basic thing you do is, reach into the text view, get the  
__LZtextclip, which is the actual flash action script movie clip, and  
which YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT. Then you call some methods  
on that instance of the text clip, probably something like

var flashformat = new TextFormat();
this.__LZtextclip.setNewTextFormat(flashformat);

See http://elfurl.com/5gvea
aka http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/ 
actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary788.html
for documentation of text clip. Actually, it looks like you can set  
leading but not kerning -- this is a limitation of Flash, not of Open  
Laszlo.

The source distribution uses this technique in lps/components/ 
extensions/views/richinputtext.*

-benjamin

On Jun 28, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Ricardo Martins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to specify the spacing of two adjacent letters and  
> paragraphs ?
>
> Regards,
> Ricardo Martins
>
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benjamin shine
software engineer
ben at laszlosystems.com