I'd like to adjust the height of a textarea (with Wrap = TRUE) so that all the text is displayed.

Knowing the number of lines displayed would be a help.

Any ideas?

bill-lancaster said

I'd like to adjust the height of a textarea (with Wrap = TRUE) so that all the text is displayed.

Knowing the number of lines displayed would be a help.

Any ideas?

the height should be..


But add an extra bit (line height) for the border/margin..

or to specifically answer your question on how to get the visible lines then..

 Does it have to be a TextArea?
Trouble with using RichTextHeight is TextArea is not RichRext

A TextLabel is RichText and has AutoResize and will give better results for RichtextHeight than a TextArea will

 Thanks Bruce that works very well.
I want the displayed text to be editable so I think I'm stuck with textarea.
Bill

I find total lines in a textarea control with two steps:


With autowrap turned on, you may have to hunt the text for linefeed or carriage return codes to come up with a better number because a line that is auto-wrapped will appear on-screen as multiple lines, but the line count from the code will think both are the same line. In other words, a long line 20 that is wrapped will return line 20 on both "lines" of the display. Also, the line counting starts with line 0, if I remember correctly.

I use a version of this to paginate a printout on a little text editor app. Hope it helps.
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