Laying out text

[Scott Rossi]

Actually, the formattedWidth returns the amount of space occupied by the
field's text, regardless of the margins, if you refer to a textChunk, like
"line 1 of field 1".  The margins value affects the result if you refer to
the field itself.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 2/22/15, 8:04 PM, "Paul Hibbert" <paul at livecode.org> wrote:

>if you use measureText it only measures the text according to the
>parameters that you supply, it doesn't take into account any properties
>other than font and font size AFAIK, whereas formattedWidth measures the
>text in the field along with the margins effectively giving the field
>width.