Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

[Geoff Canyon]

Ha, of course. The documentation tricked me with its very limited example.


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Because the physical split may happen in the middle of a logical line, if
> the field is set to wrap.
> The 'pageRanges' mirrors the 'pageHeights' property in its logic to find
> out which chunk of the field represents a page.
>
> Jan Schenkel.
>
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> > From: Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com>
> >To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> >Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 6:22 PM
> >Subject: Re: Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that
> can be entered into a field
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> >On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:07 AM, J. Landman Gay
> ><jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> >
> >> See the "pageRanges" property in the dictionary. It gives a list of
> >> character ranges that fit the height of the field.
> >
> >
> >
> >Crazy question -- what's the benefit of returning a character range
> instead
> >of a line range?
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