Text Alignment

[mleering]

Hello everyone;

I'm working on a project where there are a number of text fields on a particular layout.

The end-user will click a button on the screen which is supposed to grab all of the text from the various boxes, concatenate them all together into a single field, and have them formatted according to specifications they've laid out for me.

Some of the formatting involves varying types of alignment. For instance, some text will be left-aligned, and others will be right-aligned.

Is there a way to accomplish this via script or calculation within FileMaker Pro?

Thanks in Advance

Matt

[bcooney]

Matt,

As far as I know, alignment within a text field is not scriptable.

Maybe there's another way to go about this? Can you provide the entire requirement?

Barbara

[mleering]

Thank you for your response Barbara,

and sorry for my delayed reply.

I think I have found a 'workaround' though.

Instead of programmatically manipulating the text that I need right-aligned, I've used a template type of approach.

I'm taking a text block such as

<>

<>

<>

storing it in a global field,

manually right-aligning the text <>

and performing a scripted "Replace" to substitute the merge tags with the text that I really want to use. The alignment is persistent.

I hope this helps somebody else,

because I was really racking my brain on this one... even though it's such a simple solution.