Hi Michael,
Take a look at the TextFormat method getTextExtent(). It's useful for
working out how much space text takes up, and copes with non-fixed-width.
Beware, though, that if you are using embedded antialiased fonts the
getTextExtent() calculations are very slightly off (as the calculations are
done using the non-antialiased version of the font).
HTH,
Ian
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Sebastian. I'll try this. The only concern I have is that the
font populating the TextField isn't fixed width, so I can't really be
sure what that cutoff point is, unless it could be suggested otherwise.
I mean, if the font was fixed width, I would know that a specific amount
of characters going across equals 1 line, and multiplied by so many
lines. But, the font not being fixed width could have one line equal to
say 100 lowercase i's or maybe only 67 m's.
Any thoughts on that?
- MM
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