Set Text to the Vertical Center of the field

[Ralph DiMola]

My best guess at the tme was that the effective modifier ignores the area reserved for the maximum ascenders and descenders. Also char 1 to -1 worked better than line 1 to -1 if I remember correctly. 


Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services



<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> </div><div>Date:04/03/2016  00:05  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com </div><div>Subject: Re: Set Text to the Vertical Center of the field </div><div>
</div>Ralph DiMola wrote:

    put the EFFECTIVE formattedheight of \
       char 1 to -1 of pObj into tFheight

There it is! "EFFECTIVE"!

Once I use Jacque's technique of omitting the margins by obtaining only 
the formattedHeight of the text itself, and Ralph's astute awareness 
that apparently it's possible to have a formattedHeight different from 
an EFFECTIVE formattedHeight, all four versions of this algo adjusted 
with those changes work well to produce the same good result.

Ralph, help me out here:  under what circumstances would the 
formattedHeight and the effectiveFormattedHeight differ for a range of text?

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  Fourth World Systems
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