Grouped Fields and the formattedHeight

[Igor Couto]

Dear Jacqueline,

Thank you for your follow up! It's great to know that I was not simply 
doing something silly - or missing the point. We newbies need a lot of 
reassurance!....  :-P

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:14  PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

>> Do you think these are bugs? Should I report them? Or am I missing 
>> something?
>>
>> Again, the problems:
>> 1) changing the textFont of a group, and then the textSize of a 
>> group, and then getting the formattedHeight of a field in the group 
>> yields a wrong value.
>
> I tried the recipe from your previous message. I got the same results 
> as you did until I clicked into the field. After the field received 
> the focus, the formattedheight suddenly adjusted itself correctly. So 
> it looks like the field has to get the focus before all its properties 
> are fully recognized.
>
> I guess you could call it a bug. Scripting a "focus on fld 1" into 
> your handler might work around it, but I didn't try it.
>
>
>> 2) removing the textFont property of the group (setting it to 
>> 'empty'), ALSO removes the textSize.
>> Is this the way things are supposed to work?
>
> I'm not sure it is exactly a bug, because I can see an argument for 
> having it work either way. But I think you should report both of them.
>

I've reported them today!

Once again, many thanks! - I've managed to implement a workaround in my 
scripts already!

Kind Regards,

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Igor
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