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You are not nuts, LC is. This is an ongoing bugaboo. The workaround Mark suggested is effective, but the natives are clamoring for more sensible native behavior. Craig Newman -----Original Message----- From: Mark Schonewille <[email protected]> To: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 5:54 pm Subject: Re: Text Field Observation Hi Cal, In LiveCode, text wraps around white space and specific other characters. As soon as yu type a space or tab or even a dash, it will wrap. If the first word of a line is longer than the width of a field, it won't wrap. You can hardwrap a word by checking the formattedWidth of char 1 to x of word y. If the formattedWidth is greater than the width of the field, then you could put a space before char x to force the wrap. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com On 22 okt 2012, at 23:27, Cal Horner wrote: > I've noticed recently that a text field set up to handle text (naturally) > has an odd attribute. > > As long as the user is typing normally, that is words with spaces between > each word when the sentence reaches the right boundary of the text field I > get text wrap. > > But when I take it in my dottery ol' head to hold any key down and let the > character move along the line to the end of the text field there is no text > wrap. The line of characters disappears into the never-never. Check it out. > If you put a space in that string of characters you then get text wrap. > > Now, this seems odd to me. My logic says when you have the text wrap set it > should wrap back to the next line and continue, until you left your finger > off the key. > > How wrong am I? Or has the code been left out, by mistake, when so many new > features are added? > > Has anyone else run into this oddity or should I just stop worrying about it > and get a day job? > > Cal _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
