Hi Charles,
I gave this a try with 4 fields.
Field "source" contains the whole text
Then there are 3 identical output fields fOut1, fOut2, fOut3
these three output field all have the same height and width and textHeight.
And textHeight is fixed.
The trick is to use formattedText -> see dictionary.
I put the whole text into field fOut1 so it formats to the dimensions of
field fOut1.
Then I take the formattedText of field fOut1 and get the text return
delimited at the apparent line endings.
>From there I calculate the number of words for the height of the field since
number of words are not changed by the additional return in the
formattedText. I put those into field fOut1 and then the other two fields.
If your fields differ in dimensions or textHeight you would have to change
the code accordingly.
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on mouseUp
put "fOut1,fOut2,fOut3" into tFields
put field "source" into tData
put the height of field "fOut1" into tHeight
put the effective textHeight of field "fOut1" into tTextHeight
lock screen
put tData into field "fOut1"
put the formattedText of field "fOut1" into tFormatText
put tHeight div tTextHeight into tPossibleLines
put 1 into tFirstLine
put tPossibleLines into tLastLine
put 0 into tWordsUsed
repeat with i = 1 to the number of items of tFields
put item i of tFields into tName
put the number of words of line tFirstLine to tLastLIne of tFormatText
into tMaxWords
put word tWordsUsed + 1 to tWordsUsed + tMaxWords of tFormatText into
field tName
add tMaxWords to tWordsUsed
add tPossibleLines to tFirstLine
add tPossibleLines to tLastLIne
end repeat
unlock screen
end mouseUp
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Kind regards
Bernd
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