Which is exactly what the stack I posted does, but is not the problem in my case. The text I’m working with is tab delimited.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 3/15/15, 3:10 PM, "Richmond" <[email protected]> wrote: >The whole point of my stack was to wrap a long string that contained NO >spaces. > >Richmond. > >from my jail-broken, recycled iPad 1 > > >On 16 Mar 2015, at 00:03, Scott Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 3/15/15, 1:10 PM, "Richmond" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 15/03/15 21:53, Scott Rossi wrote: >>>> I have a text field that is filled with tab delimited glyph characters >>>> from an icon font (FontAwesome). The field wraps as expected in LC >>>>6.7, >>>> but displays all characters on a single line in LC 7.0.3 regardless of >>>> the >>>> dontWrap setting. The dontWrap property works because if I place >>>>Roman >>>> text in the field, it wraps as expected. >>>> >>>> This seems due to the new Unicode text handling, but now how now do I >>>> get >>>> the field to wrap its glyph character text? >>>> >>>> Thanks & Regards, >>>> >>>> Scott Rossi >>>> Creative Director >>>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10810&start=30 >>> >>> Richmond. >> >> >> The bottom line is one shouldn¹t have to do anything like this when text >> is separated by spaces or tabs. Text should wrap automatically. >> >> That said, if using LC 6.5 or later, you can do what you show in your >> stack much more dynamically by using something like the measureText >> function within a resizeControl handler. Unlock your source field, and >> add the following script to the field: >> >> on resizeControl >> local theWrappedText >> put width of me into myWidth >> put margins of me into myMargins >> subtract item 1 of myMargins from myWidth >> if item 3 of myMargins is not empty then >> subtract item 3 of myMargins from myWidth >> else subtract item 1 of myMargins from myWidth >> put text of me into myText >> replace return with empty in myText -- RESET TEXT >> lock screen >> put 1 into S >> repeat with N = 1 to number of chars of myText >> put measureText(char S to N of myText,me) into theLineWidth >> if theLineWidth > myWidth then >> put return after theWrappedText >> put N into S >> end if >> put char N of myText after theWrappedText >> end repeat >> set text of me to theWrappedText >> unlock screen >> end resizeControl >> >> You also make the field wrap instantaneous by placing the field in a >>group >> and triggering the wrap from resizing the group since groups generate >>the >> resizeControl message while they¹re being resized. A sample of this has >> been uploaded to your post in the forum. >> >> Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
