That sounds like a job for TEXT TO ARRAY ( varText ; arrText ; width ; fontName
; fontSize {; fontStyle {; *}} )
Keith - CDI
> On Jun 27, 2018, at 4:31 PM, Pat Bensky via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
> wrote:
>
> I have a need to know how many lines a block of text will occupy.
> Given:
> - the plain text
> - the font
> - font size
> - text area width
>
> I'm thinking it should be possible to do this by creating a WritePro
> object, adding the text and setting the various parameters - this would
> create an accurate representation of the formatted text. But having done
> that, how to find out the no. of lines?
>
> Using v16r6
>
> Pat
>
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