Multiline field height

Andy Hilton andyh at totallybrilliant.com
Thu Feb 15 20:25:51 UTC 2024


Sad to say it seems that it no longer works in 10.22 :(

I had to write some hashed up code to ‘guess’ a line count based upon contents which is ’close’ but certainly no cigar !

Andy Hilton
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> On Feb 15, 2024, at 3:15 PM, Mike Rowan <mgrowan at fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I read in an old copy of Studiotips that where rField is an Item Reference,  rField.$add(21) returns the number of lines of text in a multiline entry field. An undocumented feature.
> 
> Is it still available in 10.22, or is there an alternative method?
> 
> Mike Rowan
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