Hello,
i always use textfield.autoSize, and it works fine.
But you have to be carefull, to set the correct styles to the textfield,
before measuring.
Janosch
Danny Kodicek schrieb:
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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