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

[Shawn Blc]

@Devin, way easier than I thought it was going to be.  Thank you very much!


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Shawn Blc <shawnlivecode at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll give that a shot.  Thanks!
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Shawn Blc wrote:
>>
>> > 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"
>>
>> Shawn,
>>
>> It sounds like what you want is to resize the field to show all of the
>> text. Have you tried the formattedHeight property, which works in
>> conjunction with dontWrap?
>>
>> set the dontWrap of fld "myFld" to true
>> put whoppingHugeString into fld "myFld"
>> put the topLeft of fld "myFld" into tAnchorPt
>> set the height of fld "myFld" to the formattedHeight of fld "myFld"
>> set the topLeft of fld "myFld" to tAnchorPt
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Devin
>>
>> Devin Asay
>> Office of Digital Humanities
>> Brigham Young University
>>
>>
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