Vertically aligning text in a field

[Terence Heaford]

Have Runrev been requested to provide vertically aligned text as part of LC as I presume they have ALL the dimensional information available to calculate this?

All the best

Terry


> On 16 Dec 2014, at 11:04, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
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> Hi Terry,
> 
> There's a long discussion about this on the forum. I believe I did a good attempt, but Bernd's solution was probably the most reliable.
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> On 12/16/2014 11:54, Terence Heaford wrote:
>> Is there a definitive calculation that correctly sets the position of text vertically in a field?
>> 
>> I am using LC 6.7.
>> 
>> I have come across a few ideas like the one below that all appear to use an arbitrary offset to the margins, is there a method to calculate this accurately?
>> 
>>    put the effective textSize of fld id tID into tTextSize
>>    --   put round (((tTextSize - 22) * 1/3)) into tOffset
>>    put round (((tTextSize - 24) * 1/3)) into tOffset
>>    put the formattedheight of char 1 to - 1 of fld id tID into tFormattedHeight
>>    put round((the height of fld id tID - tFormattedHeight) / 2) into tVerticalMargins
>>    put tVerticalMargins - tOffset into tTopMargin
>>    put tVerticalMargins + tOffset into tBottomMargin
>>    set the margins of fld id tID to 8,tTopMargin,8,tBottomMargin
>> 
>> All the best
>> 
>> Terry
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