Trouble with formattedWidth revisited

[Martin Blackman]

Graham
Not knocking that if it works for you. Yes I do something similar when
printing as well, but in my case I go to that card and fill in the
field(s) and then show the user the resulting card.

The docs you mention are the same as 2.6.1 and are possibly a little
misleading. The 'current' keyword is the same as using 'this card' and
means the current card of the current stack.

On 15/04/06, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
>Here are the relevant extracts from the 2.7.0 Dictionary
>
> The formattedWidth of an object is a positive integer. The object
> must be on the current card of an open stack.

...
> offscreen card. BTW the reason I wanted the formattedWidth is as part
> of a complex calculation of what will fit on a printed page and - in
> the case of the width - not go past a tab already set (the
> formattedHeight is also pressed into service to check the total
> vertical space on the page, as you can imagine). The issue is that I
> want to investigate the width and height of a text before adding it
> to the page, to prevent overrunning of the available page area. In