What is up with FormattedHeight?

[Howard Bornstein]

That makes sense. I was complaining about formattedHeight for fields. For
buttons it seems useful.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> One thing I use it for is programmatically setting the height of menu
> buttons. I find the default size to be too large for a busy form, so I set
> the height to the formattedHeight of the text of the button. I have a
> utility that "drops" a field, button or menu onto a card and links it to a
> SQL column in a table that the card is linked to.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
>
> > Given this, the only value I can see for formattedHeight is that it
> > guarantees that the field will provide "sufficient" room to display the
> > type. That's about it. And even that breaks down with large type sizes
> and
> > small margins.
>
>
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Howard Bornstein
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