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 <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>
> On February 23, 2015 5:16:51 AM CST, Terence Heaford <t.heaf...@icloud.com>
> 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 | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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