Is there a way to wrap text in a text entry field?

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Shawn,


Does your contain long words that do not have spaces? There is an anomaly in the way LC wraps text.


In a single line, if there is not at least one space before you reach the right edge, text will trail off the right side forever.


There is a workaround for this, if you verify that is where your issue lies.



Craig Newman




-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Blc <shawnlivecode at gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 6:49 am
Subject: Re: Is there a way to wrap text in a text entry field?


Something that seems so simple is so damn complicated.   I'll mess with it
for another 4 hours and see if I can get it.  I'll make sure I post my
success.  Surely, I'm not the only one that has ever wanted to do this and
do it easily.

Thanks Richmond.


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 04/24/2013 01:07 PM, Shawn Blc wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to wrap text in a text entry field?
>>
>> For example:
>> put gQ1 into field "fldQD1" wrap text -- is what I want to do.
>>
>>
>> I see the don't wrap text in the property inspector, but it's not wrapping
>> my text when unchecked.
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>
> I must be missing something:
>
> On Linux (and I cannot quite see why this feature should differ
> cross-platform)
> I created a stack containing one field "DTEXT"
>
> and one button "BUTTON" containing the following script:
>
> on mouseUp
>    put "my knees are so hairy they have to be shaved thrice daily" into
> fld "DTEXT"
> end mouseUp
>
> and, on clicking on the button, everything worked just as it should:
>
> the text wrapped without any problems
>
> --------------------------
>
> So, I thought I would try something vaguely like what you are doing, by
> changing the button script to this:
>
> on mouseUp
>    put empty into fld "DTEXT"
>    put "my knees are so hairy they have to be shaved thrice daily" into g01
>    put g01 into fld "DTEXT" wrap text
> end mouseUp
>
> and, on clicking the button I got an error message; "button "Button":
> execution error at line 4 (Handler: can't find handler) near "wrap", char 21
>
> mainly because writing 'wrap text' directly after 'put g01 into fld
> "DTEXT" ' is complete rubbish,
>
> and I really wonder why you didn't get the same error message.
>
> ------------------------------**-------
>
> And, so to this:
>
> on mouseUp
>    put empty into fld "DTEXT"
>    put "my knees are so hairy they have to be shaved thrice daily" into g01
>    put g01 into fld "DTEXT"
> end mouseUp
>
> and that worked 100%
>
> ------------------------------**--
>
> things worth considering:
>
> 1. make sure the "don't wrap" is deselected in the prefs palette for your
> textField
>
> and if that doesn't serve your purposes (why ever not?) you could do this:
>
> on mouseUp
>    set the dontWrap of fld "DTEXT" to true
>    put empty into fld "DTEXT"
>    put "my knees are so hairy they have to be shaved thrice daily" into g01
>    put g01 into fld "DTEXT"
>     set the dontWrap of fld "DTEXT" to false
> end mouseUp
>
> which SHOULD tell ALL of us Happy Livecoders that the true/false of
> 'dontWrap' is the
>
> wrong way round !!! LOL !!!
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Best of luck, Richmond.
>
>
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