I got it working better by increasing the settings of the margins and setting the textHeight to 0.
Bill > On Mar 17, 2016, at 6:58 PM, William Prothero <proth...@earthednet.org> wrote: > > Folks: > My plot routines use fields as labels. Fields are created on the fly, the > plot image is captured, and the fields are deleted. In LC8 DP16, I find that > the field heights are messed up. I create the field and put text in it using > the following function: > > I know that fields work differently in version 8, but I thought the > formattedHeight and formattedWidth should adjust the rect to make all of the > text visible. This works fine in version 7 > function iml_makeField tName,tText > > if there is no cd fld tName then > > create field tName > > end if > > put tText into fld tName > > set the visible of fld tName to FALSE > > set the showBorder of fld tName to FALSE > > set the style of fld tName to "transparent" > > set the textAlign of fld tName to "center" > > set the textfont of fld tName to "Arial" > > set the textSize of fld tName to 12 > > set the borderWidth of fld tName to 0 > > set the margins of fld tName to 2,3,0,0 > > set the dontWrap of fld tName to true > > set the textHeight of fld tName to 20 > > --wait for 0 seconds with messages > > set the fontStyle of fld tName to bold > > set the rect of fld tName to "0,0,"&(the formattedWidth of fld > tName)&","&(the formattedHeight of fld tName) > > return the rect of fld tName > > end iml_makeField > > > Any ideas? > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > 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
