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

[Shawn Blc]

Craig,

My questions are in a text input field, words are average size words.  This
still has me confused.  I can stretch the text input field to fit the
question, but it's a pain, because I'm also calling these questions on the
last page (where I'm checking the answers).  It'd be helpful if the field
would stretch to fit the question (wrap).

I have:

-- puts question 5 from the test into fieldQD5 on the page where I check
the answers.

*put* gQ5 into field "fldQD5"






On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:50 AM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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