Glyph Text in LC7 Won't Wrap

[Scott Rossi]

Which is exactly what the stack I posted does, but is not the problem in
my case.  The text I’m working with is tab delimited.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 3/15/15, 3:10 PM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

>The whole point of my stack was to wrap a long string that contained NO
>spaces.
>
>Richmond.
>
>from my jail-broken, recycled iPad 1
>
>
>On 16 Mar 2015, at 00:03, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> On 3/15/15, 1:10 PM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 15/03/15 21:53, Scott Rossi wrote:
>>>> I have a text field that is filled with tab delimited glyph characters
>>>> from an icon font (FontAwesome).  The field wraps as expected in LC
>>>>6.7,
>>>> but displays all characters on a single line in LC 7.0.3 regardless of
>>>> the
>>>> dontWrap setting.  The dontWrap property works because if I place
>>>>Roman
>>>> text in the field, it wraps as expected.
>>>> 
>>>> This seems due to the new Unicode text handling, but now how now do I
>>>> get
>>>> the field to wrap its glyph character text?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Scott Rossi
>>>> Creative Director
>>>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10810&start=30
>>> 
>>> Richmond.
>> 
>> 
>> The bottom line is one shouldn¹t have to do anything like this when text
>> is separated by spaces or tabs.  Text should wrap automatically.
>> 
>> That said, if using LC 6.5 or later, you can do what you show in your
>> stack much more dynamically by using something like the measureText
>> function within a resizeControl handler.  Unlock your source field, and
>> add the following script to the field:
>> 
>> on resizeControl
>>   local theWrappedText
>>   put width of me into myWidth
>>   put margins of me into myMargins
>>   subtract item 1 of myMargins from myWidth
>>   if item 3 of myMargins is not empty then
>>      subtract item 3 of myMargins from myWidth
>>   else subtract item 1 of myMargins from myWidth
>>   put text of me into myText
>>   replace return with empty in myText -- RESET TEXT
>>   lock screen
>>   put 1 into S
>>   repeat with N = 1 to number of chars of myText
>>      put measureText(char S to N of myText,me) into theLineWidth
>>      if theLineWidth > myWidth then
>>         put return after theWrappedText
>>         put N into S
>>      end if
>>      put char N of myText after theWrappedText
>>   end repeat
>>   set text of me to theWrappedText
>>   unlock screen
>> end resizeControl
>> 
>> You also make the field wrap instantaneous by placing the field in a
>>group
>> and triggering the wrap from resizing the group since groups generate
>>the
>> resizeControl message while they¹re being resized.  A sample of this has
>> been uploaded to your post in the forum.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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