Center text within a field?

[J. Landman Gay]

Trevor DeVore wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:43 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to center text in a field within a graphic (circle). The 
>> text can be any font and any size.
> 
> Update - I haven't been able to find a reliable means of calculating the 
> center of text using any field properties so I resorted to exporting a 
> snapshot of the field (opaque = false) to an image, grabbing the 
> alphadata of the image and determining extreme left, top, right, bottom 
> of the text by looping through it.

Does this work? :

on mouseUp
   set the width of fld 1 to the width of grc 1 -- the circle
   get the textsize of fld 1
   set the textheight of fld 1 to it + (it div 3)
   set the height of fld 1 to the formattedheight of fld 1
   set the margins of fld 1 to the textheight of fld 1 div 3
   set the loc of fld 1 to the loc of grc 1
end mouseUp

The field must have fixedLineHeight set to false. You might have to 
jiggle the margins and textheight calcs a little bit.

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