Re: Paragraphlength

Peter Karlsson wrote:

Hi again,
I got a few questions.

1) Is the following the only/best way of getting the paragraph-length?
myLength = FTParagraph.gettext.Len



You want to call FTParagraph.getLength. The length of the
paragraph is cached once it has been calculated. When you call the
len method on a string, it calculates the length of the string
each and every time by walking through the string. I have had
discussions with RS about caching the string length and I think
that change would speed up a lot of  programs out there in
general. This optimization on their part seems like a no brainer
since strings are immutable objects.
2) It seems that FTStyleRun.getEndPosition erroneously reports zero when the it spans the whole paragraph and the style starts in the previous paragraph and ends in the following. 

Example:
this is <b>paragraph 1 <-- this is correct
this is paragraph 2 <-- FTStyleRun(tempParagraph.getItem(j)).getEndPosition reports 0 
this is </b>paragraph 3 <-- this is correct


Note, style runs don't cross paragraph boundaries.

I'll put this on my list to investigate.

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