There is a routine in the masterlibrary that calculates soft line wraps to solve the wrapping problem to which James referred.
I created it when I used the hidden field approach simulating page turning. https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wpwn3hfbmpl7sk/MasterLibrary.livecode?dl=0 On Sep 16, 2015, 4:26 AM, at 4:26 AM, James Hale <ja...@thehales.id.au> wrote: >One way is to have a hidden field the dimensions you want. Put the text >into this field first and then get the pageranges of this field. It >will return a list of character ranges, one per line, for each field >(of the hidden field's size) required. >So the number of lines will tell you how many fields, the character >ranges, what to put into them. >E.g. (Watch for line wraps) > Put mytext into field "hidden" > Put the pageRanges of field "hidden" into tranges > Put the number of lines of tranges into requiredFields >--put the code to make or display the requisite number of fields here.. > --I have assumed fields are called "display1", "display2", etc > Repeat with fnum = 1 to requiredFields > Put item 1 of line fnum of tranges into tstart > Put item 2 of line fnum of tranges into tend > Put char (tstart) to (tend) of mytext into field ("display"&fnum) > Next repeat > >James > > > >_______________________________________________ >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
