Thanks for reminding me of “the”. Need to test a little more but this seems to work:
function calculateLegFldWidth tText,tFontName,tFontSize set the textFont of the templateField to tFontName set the textSize of the templateField to tFontSize put measureText(tText,the templateField) + 8 into tFldWidth -- 8 to allow for fld margins return tFldWidth end calculateLegFldWidth All the best Terry > On 23 Feb 2015, at 15:52, J. Landman Gay <[email protected]> wrote: > > On February 23, 2015 5:16:51 AM CST, Terence Heaford <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Tried it as: >> >> put measureText("testText”,templateField) into theTextWidth >> >> Wasn’t expecting it to work and it didn’t but should it have crashed >> LC? >> >> Would it be a good idea for it to work with the templateField? > > > Livecode should never crash, so this is worthy of a report. That said, the > templateField is a function and it needs to be preceded by "the". > > The measureText function only needs a reference to any object that has text > properties, either its own or inherited. You could reference the card for > those probably. Or try it again with the templateField after assigning it > the text properties you want. Might work. > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
