formattedText size?
andu
undo at cloud9.net
Tue Jan 22 02:14:01 EST 2002
cowhead wrote:
>
> I asked this on the Rev list, but got no responses. I'm looking for the
> best way to set the textSize of a field to the maximum size the field
> can contain without changing the size of the field. So the field should
> be able to accomodate anything from single words to multiple sentences,
> all at the max textsize possible. The fields are set to auto-wrap. I
> have a "repeat until.." script that sortof does the job by first setting
> the textsize to a way-to-big number (200) then checks the
> formattedheight and width to see if it exceeds the actual height and
> width, if it does, it subtracts 5 from the textsize and repeats until it
> does not. It seems cumbersome...Does anyone have a better way? Am I
> missing something really simple? (probably).
There's nothing built-in that I know of. Your best bet is to figure out
a formula based on text length, text height, size and
formattedWidth/Height.
>
> thanks in advance,
> mark mitchell
> japan
>
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