Problems creating a field in LC8 DP16

William Prothero prothero at earthednet.org
Fri Mar 18 21:24:43 EDT 2016


Trevor:
Thanks. I reported it, with a sample stack.
Best,
Bill

William Prothero, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus
prothero at earthednet.org



> On Mar 18, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Trevor DeVore <lists at mangomultimedia.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:58 PM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Folks:
>> My plot routines use fields as labels. Fields are created on the fly, the
>> plot image is captured, and the fields are deleted. In LC8 DP16, I find
>> that the field heights are messed up. I create the field and put text in it
>> using the following function:
>> 
>> I know that fields work differently in version 8, but I thought the
>> formattedHeight and formattedWidth should adjust the rect to make all of
>> the text visible. This works fine in version 7
>> 
> 
> Bill,
> 
> Changes were made to how formattedHeight is calculated in LC 8. There are
> issues with figuring out the formattedHeight for some fonts though. See the
> comments on this commit:
> 
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3633
> 
> I would suggest filing a bug report.
> 
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
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