Re: How to get length of contents

> Go back into the January FTC archive and read the thread entitled,
> "Using the FTC as an editor, then drawing rendered text". It has
> the basics of what you need to do.


Yes, I've done some of that...

I tried your suggestion of using ftc.getDisplayPicture to get a  
picture and then grabbing its height.

That doesn't give me what I need.  The height is all wrong.


I've also tried your suggestion of:

       p=ftc.getDoc.getParagraph(ftc.getDoc.getParagraphCount- 1)
       theNewFTCHeight = p.getProxyItem(0).getComposePosition +  
p.getHeight(true) + ftc.BottomMargin

That's not doing it either.  This seems like it should be a really  
simple thing to do.  I've been banging my head against the wall over  
it all night.

Thanks,

Ron Benditt
Alien Apparatus Company, Inc.
http://www.alienapparatus.com


On Feb 13, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Brendan Murphy wrote:

> Ron Benditt wrote:
>> I'm trying to make a FTC edit field that resizes its height to match
>> the height of its contents.  I'm having a bit of trouble finding a  
>> way
>> to get the height to set the FTC to.  The only method call that I've
>> found that gets me close is ftc.getDoc.getPageHeightLength.  This
>> works some of the time, but not always.  Perhaps because I'm using  
>> the
>> FTC as and edit field I shouldn't be messing with the page
>> properties?  Is there something else that I can query to get what I
>> need?  Or even a 'line count' would work...
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