Hi Charlie,
Getting a line count for text members is doable if all the text is
formated to the same font and line spacing. If that's the case then the
following should work
on getTextLineCount aTextMem
--fixedLineSpace will return 0 if the line spacing was set automatically,
so need to manually get the height of the first character, and add 1
because Director always returns a height 1 pixel less than the true line
spacing for the first line (at least on my Windows machine it does
lineHeight=aTextMem.charPosToLoc(1)+1
lastChar=aTextMem.text.chars.count
totalHeight=aTextMem.charPosToLoc(lastChar)
lineCount=totalHeight/lineHeight
return lineCount
end
If you are dealing with multiple fonts and line spacing then I think you
are out of luck. Which it too bad because field members deal with multi
fonts just fine, but there is no line spacing in them to complicate matters.
hth,
Rob
Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:
> I know about linecount for field members (it counts every wrapped return as
> a new line as well as soft and hard returns), but is there any way to get
> the count of wrapped lines of text members? member(x).text.lines.count only
> gives hard and soft return lines.
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