How do you indent text in a window using Flexible Windows by Jon Ingold? (Inform 7)

Question

I'm trying to indent the text in the window by changing the "indentation" entry in the Table of User styles, but it doesn't seem to affect anything. How would I do this?

Include version 15/150128 of Flexible Windows by Jon Ingold.

The side window is a g-window spawned by the main window.
The position of the side window is g-placeright.
The scale method of the side window is g-proportional.
The measurement of the side window is 33.

Toggling the side window is an action out of world.
Understand "side window" as toggling the side window.

Carry out toggling the side window:
    if the side window is g-present:
        close the side window;
    otherwise:
        open the side window.

Rule for refreshing the side window:
    say "This should be indented.[line break]So should this."

Table of User Styles (continued)
window (a g-window) style name (a glulx text style) background color (a text)   color (a text)  first line indentation (a number)   fixed width (a truth state) font weight (a font weight) indentation (a number)  italic (a truth state)  justification (a text justification)    relative size (a number)    reversed (a truth state)
side window --  --  --  --  --  --  10  --  --  --  --

Place is a room.

Or maybe what I'm looking for isn't technically indentation, but a margin, so the text isn't right up against the edge of the window. Is that possible?

Answer 1

Some interpreters (Gargoyle most notably) don't support many text styles, including indentation.

But you can use another window to act as the margin:

The border window is a graphics g-window spawned by the side window.
The position of the border window is g-placeleft.
The scale method of the border window is g-fixed-size.
The measurement of the border window is 20.

After constructing the side window:
    open the border window;

(Also, in your User Styles table, you can leave out all the styles which you aren't modifying.)

Comments

Ok, I'll do that. But indenting didn't seem to work in the Inform IDE or in Glulxe, either. I didn't even try Gargoyle.