Subject: Re: FmtMark
From: Ron Ross (ronross@colba.net)
Date: Tue May 08 2001 - 15:54:12 CDT
I brought up something like this in a related thread on the user list. I
would like to reiterate just a small snippet here, I like the feature so
much;-).
CorelDraw gives right-click access to styles: Styles->Apply,
Styles->Save style props, and Styles->Revert to style. I really like
this. Sliding to Apply drops down a list of defined styles, and Save
style properties opens a dialog with checkboxes to choose what
properties in the current text or selection to include in the style.
Give it a name, and it's done, all from a mouse click in the text
you're working on.
Ron
bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) writes:
> chris> However, would it be possible to grab the current style at the
> chris> current cursor location in order to fill in the style form?
>
> Long ago, a version of AmiPro that I used had a feature that let you
> grab all the formatting info from one place in a document and apply it
> to a selection. I think their icon for it was an eye-dropper. I
> guess the metaphor was supposed to be sucking up formatting and
> splashing it onto the other place.
>
> You highlighted some stuff, clicked the eye-dropper icon, clicked the
> location that had the kind of formatting you wanted, and then clicked
> the target location. (Actually, it's been so long, I may have the
> mechanics mis-remembered ... maybe you did the highlight at the very
> end, while your cursor was changed to a filled eye-dropper.)
>
> Anyhow, this worked pretty well and seems to me not a bad UI adjunct
> to a dialog for editing styles (it would be OK with me to skip the
> eye-dropper metaphor ... it was a little, uh, cute).
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