Revisited: line count in wrapped text box

[André van den IJssel]

This has been discussed a long time ago (see topics 34637 and 41683 for instance). Can anyone comment on the solution suggested by http://www.filemaker.com/support/kb/?answers/detail/a_id/1008 ? The field ¦ in not PatternCount(TextField, "¦") >= 1 suggests the existance of a 'soft carriage return as a result of wraparound'. Puzzled !

[comment]

What exactly is your question?

[André van den IJssel]

ah sorry: does anyone know this strange character ¦ ? And what is your comment on the suggestion by http://www.filemaker.com/support/kb/?answers/detail/a_id/1008 that this character may signify the soft return that is caused by the wraparound? If that were the case I could simply count the number of occurences and hence the number of lines in the textbox. Unless I completely misunderstood question (hard to believe) and answer in this knowledge base item. Thanks a lot in advance !

[comment]

I think it's a very old article and it probably underwent some conversion and didn't survive too well. The original formula must have been:

not PatternCount(TextField, "¶") >= 1

which, if true, indicates there are no HARD returns in TextField.

[André van den IJssel]

I never thought of that ! Guess I'll have to live without it then. A monospaced font is no option here in the solution I'm building

[comment]

You still haven't said what do you need and for what purpose. The rendering of text on screen is done on-the-fly, and can vary from system to system, between screen and print, different printers, etc.

[André van den IJssel]

On the layout there is only room for max 7 lines of text. I want to restrict the user to input more than that.

[comment]

As a user, I would find that extremely annoying. But if you really need this, I suggest reading these:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/188854/post/302857/#302857

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/209552/post/333967/#333967

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/211026/post/340199/#340199

[André van den IJssel]

Thanks, some good suggestions here ! Unfortunately I can't use any font size changes, since the document layout is made obligatory (by the government).