Resizing text field with line of text and Dragging Objects in Group?
John Dixon
dixonja at hotmail.co.uk
Fri Jan 28 18:40:57 EST 2011
To answer your first question...
set the width of fld 1 to the formattedWidth of fld 1
> Hi All!
>
> I have two questions I've been struggling with. The first is related
> to text fields. Is there a way to resize a text field that has a
> single line of text in it so that it is as wide as the text inside
> it? My attempts have been to determine the number of characters in
> the field and multiply that by some number to create the width of the
> field. That doesn't work too well.
>
> My second question is related to groups. I'm dragging some fields
> around in a group and the group does not resize when i go beyond the
> boundingRect of the group like I've read it should.
>
> I'm setting the boundingRect to empty and setting the locklocation
> property to false but when i drag the field to edge of the group it
> disappears ;-) ... i did see there were some issues with BoundingRect
> described in previous posts...
>
> Thank you!
>
> John Patten
> SUSD
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