I've noticed a post about this in the archives, but it was described as a
Mac issue and I'm getting it on a PC. I'm trying to use
TextFormat.getTextExtent() to do some image calculations, but I'm getting
enormous values. I suspect it's because my text includes newline
characters, but that's just a guess.
The docs say the function is deprecated, but the liveDocs emphatically
deny this. Anyone got any suggestions?
I've found a few more posts in the archives about this. Everyone says,
essentially, don't use it - and it looks like it won't solve my problem in
any case, because it essentially returns the same values as field.textHeight
/ textWidth.
Maybe someone can offer some alternative suggestions. I need to get a bitmap
representing a menu. It will contain n lines of text, and needs to be
resized automatically to the extent of the text. So far so simple. But the
problem I'm having is that field.textWidth (and autosize too) crops the text
too close, with the result that the top and bottom lines of text are both
hard up against the edge of the image, so that the size of the image is not
equal to n* the line height, as I need. And without getTextExtent I can't
see any simple method for finding the height of the line - and in other
circumstances I might not even know how many lines there are, although of
course if I know the lineHeight I can get this by
ceil(textHeight/lineHeight)
Thoughts welcome
Danny
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