Shawn,
Does your contain long words that do not have spaces? There is an anomaly in the way LC wraps text. In a single line, if there is not at least one space before you reach the right edge, text will trail off the right side forever. There is a workaround for this, if you verify that is where your issue lies. Craig Newman -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Blc <[email protected]> To: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 6:49 am Subject: Re: Is there a way to wrap text in a text entry field? Something that seems so simple is so damn complicated. I'll mess with it for another 4 hours and see if I can get it. I'll make sure I post my success. Surely, I'm not the only one that has ever wanted to do this and do it easily. Thanks Richmond. On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Richmond <[email protected]>wrote: > On 04/24/2013 01:07 PM, Shawn Blc wrote: > >> Is there a way to wrap text in a text entry field? >> >> For example: >> put gQ1 into field "fldQD1" wrap text -- is what I want to do. >> >> >> I see the don't wrap text in the property inspector, but it's not wrapping >> my text when unchecked. >> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >> > > I must be missing something: > > On Linux (and I cannot quite see why this feature should differ > cross-platform) > I created a stack containing one field "DTEXT" > > and one button "BUTTON" containing the following script: > > on mouseUp > put "my knees are so hairy they have to be shaved thrice daily" into > fld "DTEXT" > end mouseUp > > and, on clicking on the button, everything worked just as it should: > > the text wrapped without any problems > > -------------------------- > > So, I thought I would try something vaguely like what you are doing, by > changing the button script to this: > > on mouseUp > put empty into fld "DTEXT" > put "my knees are so hairy they have to be shaved thrice daily" into g01 > put g01 into fld "DTEXT" wrap text > end mouseUp > > and, on clicking the button I got an error message; "button "Button": > execution error at line 4 (Handler: can't find handler) near "wrap", char 21 > > mainly because writing 'wrap text' directly after 'put g01 into fld > "DTEXT" ' is complete rubbish, > > and I really wonder why you didn't get the same error message. > > ------------------------------**------- > > And, so to this: > > on mouseUp > put empty into fld "DTEXT" > put "my knees are so hairy they have to be shaved thrice daily" into g01 > put g01 into fld "DTEXT" > end mouseUp > > and that worked 100% > > ------------------------------**-- > > things worth considering: > > 1. make sure the "don't wrap" is deselected in the prefs palette for your > textField > > and if that doesn't serve your purposes (why ever not?) you could do this: > > on mouseUp > set the dontWrap of fld "DTEXT" to true > put empty into fld "DTEXT" > put "my knees are so hairy they have to be shaved thrice daily" into g01 > put g01 into fld "DTEXT" > set the dontWrap of fld "DTEXT" to false > end mouseUp > > which SHOULD tell ALL of us Happy Livecoders that the true/false of > 'dontWrap' is the > > wrong way round !!! LOL !!! > > ----------------------------- > > Best of luck, Richmond. > > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
