I have a field on one of my apps whose width needs to change depending on content, but there is a minimum and a maximum width aspect, so that an empty field doesn’t appear like a weird tiny rectangle or stretch to overlap other objects.
I use something like: if the formattedWidth of field x < tMinWidth then set the width of field x to tMinWidth else if the formattedWidth of field x > tMaxWidth then set the width of field x to tMaxWidth else set the width of field x to the formattedWidth of field x Bob S > On Oct 24, 2020, at 3:35 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi Richmond, > >> Am 24.10.2020 um 12:17 schrieb Richmond via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> >> Over in the Forums someone has asked a question about measuring the length >> of text lines. >> Of course one can count characters, but in most alphabetic systems different >> characters have different lengths. >> Is there a way to measure the length as in LENGTH of a line rather than >> count the number of characters it >> contains? > > ... > put the formattedwidth of line 1 of fld 1 > ... > >> Richmond. > > Best > > Klaus > > -- > Klaus Major > https://www.major-k.de > kl...@major-k.de > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
