Powerpoint-style bullets on mac/pc

Hi All:
Anyone have insights as to how to mimic powerpoint-style
bullet behavior in Director? In other words, it's not just a matter
of numtoChar, it's also the indents, etc... just like ppt,
basically!
I already know about this:
if the platform contains "win" then
bullet = numtoChar(149)
else bullet = numtoChar(165)
This is for an cross-platform program, so we have to deal
with font issues on both Mac and PC. There's also things like
keeping just the bullet in wingdings (or whatever) if they
backspace up to it, so they don't start typing with wingdings font
accidentally...
Thanks!

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:20:48 GMT, Bentmen posted in
macromedia.director.basics:
> Anyone have insights as to how to mimic powerpoint-style
bullet
> behavior in
> Director?
You can set the leftIndent property of a member or a chunk of
lines in a
member. Check the docs for syntax, but I think it's something
like this to
set lines 3-6 (inclusive).
member("textMember").line[3..6].leftIndent = 18
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

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