What version of LiveCode on what platform are you trying this on? There have been a number of bugs related to object geometry calculations, including fields, over the years, found and fixed in various releases of LC. Some were platform and version of OS specific.
On 1/31/2018 8:31 PM, David Epstein via use-livecode wrote: > Is there somewhere an explanation of how a field’s textSize, borderWidth, > margins, and formattedHeight interact? > > According to the dictionary entry for “formattedHeight”, a field’s > formattedHeight is calculated “including top and bottom margins”, while the > formattedHeight of a chunk is calculated “disregarding margins.” > > That does not seem consistent with these results for a field whose textSize > is 16 and whose margin is 4: > > the formattedHeight of line 1 of fld 1 19 > the formattedHeight of line 1 to 2 of fld 1 38 > the formattedHeight of fld 1 15 if there’s one > line of text > the formattedHeight of fld 1 34 if there are > two lines of text. > > Even though there are top and bottom margins of 4, the field’s > formattedHeight is smaller, rather than larger, than the formattedHeight of > its contents. > > A perhaps related question: Why does a field margin of zero clip the visible > text at the top and left? > > Many thanks. > > David Epstein > _______________________________________________ > 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
