Ken,

This behavior is something general to TextMorph - it is biased toward having one TextStyle for the entire text. It is quite happy with different sizes, colors and other emphasis, but it takes a little extra work to get it to accept a different font mid-stream.

Cheers,
Bob

On 21 Feb 2003 17:07:13 -0600 Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 16:39, Ned Konz wrote:
>> On Friday 21 February 2003 01:24 pm, Ken Causey wrote:
>> > Tested in both 5156 and 5169 updated images.  Grab a TextMorph and
>> > choose 'text color...' from the halo menu.  Uncheck 'Apply changes
>> > to entire text' and select part of the text.  Choose a style from
>> > the Style popup menu.  When it is applied it is applied to the
>> > entire text not just to the selected text.
>> 
>> Actually, it doesn't affect the entire text, but it affects from the 
>> beginning of the selected text to the end of the text.
>> 
>> So if you select some characters in the middle of the text and change 
>> them, the ones before your selection don't get changed.
>
>I am unable to reproduce what you describe in 3.4b-5169.  If I have a
>TextMorph containing the String 'This is a test of the emergency
>broadcasting system' and select 'test of the emergency' and change the
>style then the font of the entire String changes, both in the preview
>and, when I choose accept, in the original TextMorph (or when I choose
>cancel for that matter).  Oh and I doo have 'Apply changes to entire
>text' unchanged.  To make this clear I started with a downloaded
>3.4b-5156 image and loaded code updates, rejected 3.5 change, then
>saved, exitted, restarted, and loaded code updates again to get to
>5169.  For what it's worth this behaviour is identical in the generic
>5156 image.