Set Text to the Vertical Center of the field

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/2/2016 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 4/1/2016 11:08 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
>> on mouseup
>> set the textsize of me to 28
>> put the formattedheight of me into tTotalTextHeight
>> put ( ( the height of me - tTotalTextHeight ) / 2) into tTopBottomMargins
>> set topmargin of me to tTopBottomMargins
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> But it doesn't and the vertical position varies depending on the
>> number of lines.
>
> Try this:
>
> on verticalAlign
>    put the formattedheight of line 1 to -1 of me into tTotalTextHeight
>    put ( ( the height of me - tTotalTextHeight ) / 2) into
> tTopBottomMargins
>    set topmargin of me to tTopBottomMargins
> end verticalAlign
>
> The formattedheight of the entire field apparently isn't the same as the
> formattedheight of the totals of the lines. At least, the above worked
> in my limited test.
>

BTW, I set the fixedlineheight of the field to true.

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