Bob,
I do what you're talking about all the time. Here's my setObjectHeightToText
command that I use (pass it the long id of the field, and the minimum height
you want):
on setObjectHeightToText lID,minH
put the rect of lID into tRect
put item 2 of tRect + the formattedHeight of lID into item 4 of tRect
if minH > 1 then
if item 4 of tRect - item 2 of tRect < minH then
put item 2 of tRect + minH into item 4 of tRect
end if
end if
set the rect of lID to tRect
end setObjectHeightToText
Hope that helps!
-Dan
On 10/26/20, 10:18 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Bob Sneidar via
use-livecode" <[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:
I have a field on one of my apps whose width needs to change depending on
content, but there is a minimum and a maximum width aspect, so that an empty
field doesn’t appear like a weird tiny rectangle or stretch to overlap other
objects.
I use something like:
if the formattedWidth of field x < tMinWidth then set the width of field x
to tMinWidth
else if the formattedWidth of field x > tMaxWidth then set the width of
field x to tMaxWidth
else set the width of field x to the formattedWidth of field x
Bob S
> On Oct 24, 2020, at 3:35 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Richmond,
>
>> Am 24.10.2020 um 12:17 schrieb Richmond via use-livecode
<[email protected]>:
>>
>> Over in the Forums someone has asked a question about measuring the
length of text lines.
>> Of course one can count characters, but in most alphabetic systems
different characters have different lengths.
>> Is there a way to measure the length as in LENGTH of a line rather than
count the number of characters it
>> contains?
>
> ...
> put the formattedwidth of line 1 of fld 1
> ...
>
>> Richmond.
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
> --
> Klaus Major
> https://www.major-k.de
> [email protected]
>
>
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