No, that's correct. I thought you meant you wanted an API that can
measure height as well.
Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org
On 7/13/10 1:46 PM, P T Withington wrote:
Actually it looks like<text>/getTextWidth is supposed to synchronously measure
the text. Am I confused?
It is true that you cannot immediately look at<text>/width, but the method
appears to support measuring directly.
On 2010-07-13, at 16:33, Max Carlson wrote:
There isn't. Currently, you can only set the contents of a text then measure
its dimensions.
Can you file an improvement? It would be nice if you could request the width,
height or both for efficiency...
Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org
On 7/13/10 1:18 PM, P T Withington wrote:
Is there a public LFC API that will let you measure the dimensions of a line of
text?
If you use a plain<text> element, you can't try to read the size in the same
call that sets the text, you have to listen for 'onwidth' (because most DOM's defer
layout until javascript is idle).
I'm pretty sure the kernel has a way to measure text that uses some hackery to
do it synchronously. Can we expose that as a public API if it's not already?
