Get text extent is a TextFormat method
On Mar 29, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
Yeah, that's what I figured, but if I remember, getTextExtent is a
Lingo call for Director?
I'll try doing a line of tokens at a time, and see if I can improve
the speed that way.
Cheers
C
Michael Bedar wrote:
I did the same thing a few years ago, and it worked fine. You
may run into speed problems if you go over a certain amount of
text to scroll however. Instead of using maxscroll, it is a bit
faster to use getTextExtent to see if a given line will fit in
the text box..
Instead of testing word by word, you can start to make some
educated guesses about how many chars will fit in a line, based
again on the extent. This way you can make far fewer comparisons.
And remember, if you are putting string S into textboxes a,b and
c.. there is no need to test anything in c, just dump everything
left in.
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