enlarge field to size of labeltext

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Quoting Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>:

Hi Sarah

Thanks, that is exactly what I wanted.

I've left the text quoted below for anyone searchig the archives.

Cheers
Bob; sunny Scotland (honest)

>> I have a button that resizes a label (custonlabel) via 2 fields 
>> labelnewname and
>> labelnewtextsize.
>>
>> the script is
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>   set the text of field CustomLabel to field LabelNewName
>>   set the textsize of field CustomLabel to field LabelNewTextsize
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> I have a large area for the label but if I add too much text or too large a
>> font, the new label is only partially visible because most is outwith the
>> boundary of the label field.
>>
>> Is there a  way to dynamically resize the field "customlabel" to 
>> enlarge to the
>> size of the text?
>>
>
> set the width of fld "CustomLabel" to the formattedWidth of fld "CustomLabel"
> set the height of fld "CustomLabel" to the formattedHeight of fld 
> "CustomLabel"
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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