FormattedHeight of a field and its contents

[Bob Sneidar]

I get 14 for line 1 and 22 for the field. Put that in your smipe and poke it! ;-)

Bob S


> On Jan 31, 2018, at 17:31 , David Epstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there somewhere an explanation of how a field’s textSize, borderWidth, margins, and formattedHeight interact?  
> 
> According to the dictionary entry for “formattedHeight”, a field’s formattedHeight is calculated “including top and bottom margins”, while the formattedHeight of a chunk is calculated “disregarding margins.”
> 
> That does not seem consistent with these results for a field whose textSize is 16 and whose margin is 4:
> 
> the formattedHeight of line 1 of fld 1                 19
> the formattedHeight of line 1 to 2 of fld 1          38
> the formattedHeight of fld 1                               15  if there’s one line of text
> the formattedHeight of fld 1                               34  if there are two lines of text.
> 
> Even though there are top and bottom margins of 4, the field’s formattedHeight is smaller, rather than larger, than the formattedHeight of its contents.
> 
> A perhaps related question:  Why does a field margin of zero clip the visible text at the top and left?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> David Epstein