Makeing scroll field expand with the program

[Kevin J]

Well I tried what you showed but it does not work and the don't wrap
is not checked and it does not work. So I must bedoing somthing wrong
that I can't figure out.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:17:11 +0100, Klaus Major <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> > I am trying to make a simple text editor I have to questions that I
> > can't figure out when it comes to a multiline text field.
> >
> > 1) How do I make the text field expand to fit the window when a user
> > expands the program to fit the entire screen?
> 
> you need a "resizestack" handler in your stack, since that message will
> be sent to your current card (and stack) if the user does these kind of
> things,
> resizing the stack manually or clicking the "maximize" button in the
> window
> title bar...
> 
> Like (very simple! :-):
> 
> on resizestack
>     lock screen
>     set the width of fld "my field" to the width of this cd
>     ## set the width
> 
>    set the left of fld "my field" to the left of this cd
>    ## adjust the field...
> end resizestack
> 
> will make taht field as wide as the stack is :-)
> You get the picture...
> 
> > 2) How do I mak the lines line wrap rather then just continue on in
> > one line
> 
> In the inspector UNcheck "dontwrap" for that field.
> 
> Hope that helps...
> 
> > Thank you for all your help with learning how to do things with
> > revolution. I have been watching the video tutorials and they helped
> > alot.
> >
> > Kevin
> 
> Regards
> 
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> http://www.major-k.de
> 
>