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'''Deepter into text'''

== Summary ==

So much ado about Labels and the text in them.
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|| Text & Background Colors || 44 ||
|| Coloring || 46-47 ||
|| Changing the Application Color Scheme || 50 ||
|| Font sizes and attributes - includes {{{FontFamily, FontSize, FontAttributes}}} || 51 ||
|| Formatting text in a {{{Span}}} is similar to formatting text in html || 53 ||
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=== Program Y p. Z === === Program Baskervilles ===
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Concepts:

 1. Shows that text wraps inside a label be default.
 1. Shows the use of Device.OnPlatform for padding.

Classes:

 1. Label is demonstrated.

=== Greetings from the previous Chapter ===

Pages 44, 45, 52.

Concepts

 1. TextAlignment
 1. BackgroundColor
 1. TextColor
 1. FontAttributes

No new classes.

=== VariableFormatedText ===

Pages 53, 54

Concepts:

 1. FontSize (named)
 1. FontAttributes (bold, italic...)

Classes:

 1. NamedSize - is related to the font sizes
 1. Device.GetNamedSize(NamedSize.Large, typeof(Label)) returns an appropriate font size for the platform.
 1. FontAttributes e.g. FontAttributes.Bold

=== VariableFormatedParagraph ===

Pages 55, 56

Concepts:

Demonstrates using a "Span" to format text in a "FormattedText" property of a Label.

No New Classes here

=== NamedFontSizesPage ===

Pages 57-58

Concepts:

Demonstrates the different sizes on different platforms by looping through them and adding spans for each size in a label that includes:

 1. Named Size.
 1. Device dependent actual size in text
 1. A device dependent NewLine character.

Classes:

 1. Environment allows us to get the device dependent NewLine character.

Chapter 3 Notes

Deepter into text

Summary

So much ado about Labels and the text in them.

Programming Concepts

Concept

Page

Text wraps automatically in labels

42

Text & Background Colors

44

Coloring

46-47

Changing the Application Color Scheme

50

Font sizes and attributes - includes FontFamily, FontSize, FontAttributes

51

Formatting text in a Span is similar to formatting text in html

53

Programs

Program Baskervilles

Page 41.

Concepts:

  1. Shows that text wraps inside a label be default.

  2. Shows the use of Device.OnPlatform for padding.

Classes:

  1. Label is demonstrated.

Greetings from the previous Chapter

Pages 44, 45, 52.

Concepts

  1. TextAlignment

  2. BackgroundColor

  3. TextColor

  4. FontAttributes

No new classes.

VariableFormatedText

Pages 53, 54

Concepts:

  1. FontSize (named)

  2. FontAttributes (bold, italic...)

Classes:

  1. NamedSize - is related to the font sizes

  2. Device.GetNamedSize(NamedSize.Large, typeof(Label)) returns an appropriate font size for the platform.

  3. FontAttributes e.g. FontAttributes.Bold

VariableFormatedParagraph

Pages 55, 56

Concepts:

Demonstrates using a "Span" to format text in a "FormattedText" property of a Label.

No New Classes here

NamedFontSizesPage

Pages 57-58

Concepts:

Demonstrates the different sizes on different platforms by looping through them and adding spans for each size in a label that includes:

  1. Named Size.
  2. Device dependent actual size in text

  3. A device dependent NewLine character.

Classes:

  1. Environment allows us to get the device dependent NewLine character.

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