Is there a way to wrap text in a text entry field?

[Shawn Blc]

I'll give that a shot.  Thanks!


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

>
> On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Shawn Blc wrote:
>
> > Craig,
> >
> > My questions are in a text input field, words are average size words.
>  This
> > still has me confused.  I can stretch the text input field to fit the
> > question, but it's a pain, because I'm also calling these questions on
> the
> > last page (where I'm checking the answers).  It'd be helpful if the field
> > would stretch to fit the question (wrap).
> >
> > I have:
> >
> > -- puts question 5 from the test into fieldQD5 on the page where I check
> > the answers.
> >
> > *put* gQ5 into field "fldQD5"
>
> Shawn,
>
> It sounds like what you want is to resize the field to show all of the
> text. Have you tried the formattedHeight property, which works in
> conjunction with dontWrap?
>
> set the dontWrap of fld "myFld" to true
> put whoppingHugeString into fld "myFld"
> put the topLeft of fld "myFld" into tAnchorPt
> set the height of fld "myFld" to the formattedHeight of fld "myFld"
> set the topLeft of fld "myFld" to tAnchorPt
>
> HTH
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
>
>
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