[Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height

Wed Feb 9 10:28:05 GMT 2011

Use a normal text icon, and get around it that way. Have a submit button or similar to handle events.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 09 February 2011 10:27
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height

A sized multi-line text entry with auto scroll bar.
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:11:41 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height
Back pedal a minute. What's the goal again?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 08 February 2011 16:52
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height

No effect, and it has to be there because these other lines are taking effect:

longtextentry.wordWrap = true; //yesd
longtextentry.multiline = true; //yes
longtextentryid._width = 100; //nothing

So here's what I ended up doing.
I'm trying to match TE to graphic.

<DIS>//graphic
<INT>//catch load event
<SCR>//get xywh of graphic
<SCR>//set attribs of TE
<INT>
  <TE>

This works correctly if scrolling is set to 1 in the TE icon.
But if I set the scroll attrib to auto, it never scrolls, text lines just continue to add till it's off screen.

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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:22:30 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height
sorry, it is simply the iconID, the rs property in this case. It refers to the textfield directly.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett [d_b_burnett at hotmail.com]
Sent: 08 February 2011 14:23
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height

Had tried that one.
longtextentryid.txt._width = 100;

The whole interface collapses, so .txt must not be there.
I had also tried to do an inspect on id.txt and rs.txt and I get nothing.
Odd.
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:34:53 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height
iconID.txt._width

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 08 February 2011 13:25
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height

OK, skip the line restriction part, scrolling is OK if auto.

Now I'm gapping on how to dynamically set the te field width/height.

te_rs.txt.._width = 400;
te_rs.txt.clip()._width = 400;

?
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:05:49 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height
You want the returns? But to restrict lineCount?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 08 February 2011 13:04
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height

Doesn't that only give me a single entry line?
It won't take returns?
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:51:04 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Restricting text entry field height
multiline = false; //hide all the borders and place on top of the graphic paper?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 08 February 2011 12:43
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Subject: [Xerte] Restricting text entry field height

Any way to set a multiline te field to a specific height without setting scrolling =1?

Idea is to give the user a set area  (think a ruled page) to enter into.
No scrollbars and no running past the bottom.

Tried a few variations with
longtextentry._height = 200;

but as soon as I turn scrolling off, the tf just keeps expanding downwards, and if I turn scrolling on, well, the darn thing scrolls.

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