1.152.2 Send methods

style ->bold: bool

Inherits description from: style<-bold

style ->grey: bool

Inherits description from: style<-bold

style ->hidden: bool

If a style object has style->hidden: @on, the text will be made invisible. Currently this attribute is ignored if the style is used for a dict_item object.

May be used to implement outline editors or to hide control sequences.

See also class fragment and class editor.

style ->highlight: bool

Inherits description from: style<-bold

style ->initialise: icon=[image]*, font=[font], colour=[colour], highlight=[bool], underline=[bool|texture_name|colour], bold=[bool], grey=[bool], background=[colour|pixmap|elevation], hidden=[bool], left_margin=[int], right_margin=[int], strikethrough=[bool|texture_name|colour]

Create a style object from its (margin-)image, font and text-attributes. For example:

send(Editor, style, section_header,
     style(font := huge)).

The arguments are:

style->icon	Image shown in text_margin object
style->font	Font used to display characters
style->colour	Colour for characters
style->highlight	Swap colour and background
style->underline	Underline text
style->bold	Print bold
style->grey	Print grey using colour<-reduce
style->background	Colour/elevation for background
style->hidden	If true, text is invisible
style->left_margin	Left margin (pixels)
style->right_margin	Right margin (pixels from right)

NOTE: this method defines a large number of arguments. It is advised to use the keyword := value construct for specifying the arguments. The following two terms define a bold style:

style(bold := @on)
style(@default, @default, @default, @default, @default, @on)

See also class := and send_method->send.

style ->underline:

Bugs: Underlining is done at a fixed distance of the base-line with a fixed line thickness (1). These parameters ought to be read from the (X-)font attributes.

Inherits description from: style<-bold