Resizing text field with line of text and Dragging Objects in Group?

[John Dixon]

To answer your first question...

set the width of fld 1 to the formattedWidth of fld 1

> Hi All!
> 
> I have two questions I've been struggling with. The first is related  
> to text fields. Is there a way to resize a text field that has a  
> single line of text in it so that it is as wide as the text inside  
> it?  My attempts have been to determine the number of characters in  
> the field and multiply that by some number to create the width of the  
> field. That doesn't work too well.
> 
> My second question is related to groups. I'm dragging some fields  
> around in a group and the group does not resize when i go beyond the  
> boundingRect of the group like I've read it should.
> 
> I'm setting the boundingRect to empty and setting the locklocation  
> property to false but when i drag the field to edge of the group it  
> disappears ;-)  ... i did see there were some issues with BoundingRect  
> described in previous posts...
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> John Patten
> SUSD