Glyph Text in LC7 Won't Wrap

[Richmond]

The whole point of my stack was to wrap a long string that contained NO spaces.

Richmond.

from my jail-broken, recycled iPad 1


On 16 Mar 2015, at 00:03, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> 
> On 3/15/15, 1:10 PM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 15/03/15 21:53, Scott Rossi wrote:
>>> I have a text field that is filled with tab delimited glyph characters
>>> from an icon font (FontAwesome).  The field wraps as expected in LC 6.7,
>>> but displays all characters on a single line in LC 7.0.3 regardless of
>>> the
>>> dontWrap setting.  The dontWrap property works because if I place Roman
>>> text in the field, it wraps as expected.
>>> 
>>> This seems due to the new Unicode text handling, but now how now do I
>>> get
>>> the field to wrap its glyph character text?
>>> 
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>> 
>>> Scott Rossi
>>> Creative Director
>>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10810&start=30
>> 
>> Richmond.
> 
> 
> The bottom line is one shouldn¹t have to do anything like this when text
> is separated by spaces or tabs.  Text should wrap automatically.
> 
> That said, if using LC 6.5 or later, you can do what you show in your
> stack much more dynamically by using something like the measureText
> function within a resizeControl handler.  Unlock your source field, and
> add the following script to the field:
> 
> on resizeControl
>   local theWrappedText
>   put width of me into myWidth
>   put margins of me into myMargins
>   subtract item 1 of myMargins from myWidth
>   if item 3 of myMargins is not empty then
>      subtract item 3 of myMargins from myWidth
>   else subtract item 1 of myMargins from myWidth
>   put text of me into myText
>   replace return with empty in myText -- RESET TEXT
>   lock screen
>   put 1 into S
>   repeat with N = 1 to number of chars of myText
>      put measureText(char S to N of myText,me) into theLineWidth
>      if theLineWidth > myWidth then
>         put return after theWrappedText
>         put N into S
>      end if
>      put char N of myText after theWrappedText
>   end repeat
>   set text of me to theWrappedText
>   unlock screen
> end resizeControl
> 
> You also make the field wrap instantaneous by placing the field in a group
> and triggering the wrap from resizing the group since groups generate the
> resizeControl message while they¹re being resized.  A sample of this has
> been uploaded to your post in the forum.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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