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[Andre.Bisseret]

Le 22 févr. 10 à 16:37, Andre Garzia a écrit :

> What I'd try would be to use the formattedWidth to check if my text  
> field
> was too small, if it was, then, I would lower the text size and  
> check again,
> rinse and repeat till it fits!
>
> :D

After some iterations your risk to have to buy binoculars ;-o)))

André (with an accent ;-)
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Andre.Bisseret <Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr 
> >wrote:
>
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> You might catch a glance at a post from Jacque where she shows how  
>> to do
>> the reverse (increase the text of a field when it is difficult to  
>> read)
>>
>> http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2010-January/132572.html
>> might try the reverse
>>
>> Another one, I used in an app. where certain lines of a field where  
>> to long
>> to be read entirely :
>> The idea is that on mouseDown on a line the tooltip appears showing  
>> the
>> entire line.
>> (with a trick to keep the toolTip visible for a longer time)
>>
>> In the script of the field I have :
>>
>> local tLine
>> on mouseDown
>> set the toolTipDelay to 150
>> showToolTip
>> wait 5 seconds with messages
>> set the toolTipDelay to 1
>> showToolTip
>> end mouseDown
>>
>> on showToolTip
>> put word 2 of the mouseLine into tLine
>> set the tooltip of me to empty
>> set the toolTip of me to line tLine of me
>> end voirToolTip
>>
>> on mouseUp
>> set the toolTip of me to empty
>> set the toolTipDelay to 500
>> exit to top
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> Best regards from Grenoble
>>
>> André
>>
>> Le 22 févr. 10 à 12:42, Rolf Kocherhans a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Hello all
>>>
>>> I am looking for an idea to the following problem :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a non focused label text field of a fixed length, I use it
>>> to display e.g. email adresses.
>>>
>>> Sometimes the email address fits into the field, but other
>>> times the email address ist to long, so I only see 80% of it.
>>>
>>> I now noticed that the iPhones address application,
>>> automatically reduces the font size to be able to always
>>> display the whole address.
>>>
>>> Very clever !
>>>
>>> My Label field does not have a monospaced font
>>> I use (Lucida Grande), I have no clue how to replicating this  
>>> behavior.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anybody have an idea how I can do the same with revTalk ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Rolf
>>>
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