Yeah I was thinking the same thing. textChanged triggers a handler that reformats the text every time. In essence, you are doing what a word processor would do.
Bob S > On Mar 25, 2017, at 09:07 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I looked into that for the glx2 script editor and gave up. Soft line wrapping > by itself isn't a problem, and line numbering by itself isn't a problem, but > there's no message generated that lets you know when wrapping is happening, > and no indication in the text fields that a line has been wrapped. > > The only ugly solution I could think of was to iterate through each of the > lines of text, comparing the line length and character width with the length > of the field, and flagging an overflow as a wrapped line. And do this every > time the field got resized and text added or deleted. If you're dealing with > a field with mixed styles then your problems are even worse. > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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
