Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-10 Thread BNig
urns the bounding rect of the actual letters in the field -- which is different from the formattedRect -- based on a script by Scott Rossi -- http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/What-is-up-with-FormattedHeight-tt4360344.html#a4372671 lock screen ## CREATE IM

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Actually, I may be wrong but I seem to recall the script I posted being a variation of something written by Trevor DeVore. Just to keep the credits rolling along... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Howard Bornstein wrote: > Wow, thank you Ken and Scott

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-10 Thread Howard Bornstein
Wow, thank you Ken and Scott. This was the direction I was planning on pursuing for a solution, but the difference here is that it would have taken me a month, whereas I'm sure Scott knocked this out in his head while brushing his teeth before his morning cup of coffee. Awesome! I appreciate every

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-09 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Ken: The following function does what you propose using a transitional image and gets pretty close. It requires the long id of the target field, and only works on transparent fields. You'd have to add additional code to convert the non-text portion of the field to alphaData, or temporarily co

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-09 Thread Ken Corey
On 06/02/2012 03:30, Howard Bornstein wrote: I need to find the smallest rectangle that will enclose a line of text of arbitrary text size in a field. I thought I could use formattedheight and formattedwidth to do this but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm very perplexed too. Instead of worry

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-08 Thread Howard Bornstein
That makes sense. I was complaining about formattedHeight for fields. For buttons it seems useful. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > One thing I use it for is programmatically setting the height of menu > buttons. I find the default size to be too large for a busy form, so I s

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
One thing I use it for is programmatically setting the height of menu buttons. I find the default size to be too large for a busy form, so I set the height to the formattedHeight of the text of the button. I have a utility that "drops" a field, button or menu onto a card and links it to a SQL co

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-08 Thread Howard Bornstein
Right. As I've been able to determine, the textheight is used to create the leading and the formattedheight uses the font metrics, the textheight (if set) and the field margins (if set). On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > If you have ever had to edit type faces, you would see t

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-08 Thread Howard Bornstein
Thanks for your reply. As a graphic designer, I know about ascenders, descenders, x-height, etc. However, I had thought that formattedHeight adjusted the field height to the size of the text being displayed, not to the min and max of the entire type face. I created a field with the entire extended

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
If you have ever had to edit type faces, you would see that this space is necessary. It used to be called leading (not lead as you would a dog but lead as in a bit of lead inserted between lines of type in a press). Without leading, type in a paragraph would be much more difficult to read. There

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Hibbert
Howard, > Why doesn't the formattedHeight of a field just do this automatically? Why > does it include extra space at the top and bottom of the field? > What are the relationships among text size, text height, and field height > that will allow the field to adjust to exactly the size of the text >

Re: What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-06 Thread AndyP
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What is up with FormattedHeight?

2012-02-05 Thread Howard Bornstein
I need to find the smallest rectangle that will enclose a line of text of arbitrary text size in a field. I thought I could use formattedheight and formattedwidth to do this but it doesn't seem to be working. The dictionary says about FormattedHeight: Use the *formattedHeight* property to determi