Does anyone know of a way to query the rendered width of a bound field object. We are using a proportional font (Times New Roman) and need to figure out, how wide the output is going to be. Thank you!
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Hi,
You can access the width of the object using .w. For example:
var vWidth = TextField1.w;
Hope that helps,
Niall
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Hi Niall, thank you, but this is not what I need. Say, for instance, I have a field "FirstName" defined with w=3.0in and font="Times New Roman", fontsize="12pt". The first record from the dat file has the value "Niall", the second record has the value "Alexander". What I need is the resulting length of the strings "Neill" and "Alexander". Counting characters doesn't help, because the width of the different characters varies.
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Hi,
.w will give the width of the field. Are you flowing the field Western style, so that it automatically extends based on the length of the string?
Maybe if you describe what you are looking for. When the data is imported, do you want the object to change in width? Or do you want the font to reduce in size to fit the content into a fixed sized object?
Sorry, but I just don't understand whay you need the physical length of the string inside a field. Can you explain?
Niall
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Hi Niall, thanks again. I am currently working on a project where we convert Crystal Reports
documents to LiveCycle Production Print with the goal of creating the exact same output in
LiveCycle as it was produced in Crystal Reports.
We define a field in LiveCycle with the exact same properties for width, height, font, font size etc. as
it is defined in Crystal Reports.
When we populate the field with data that exceeds the defined width of the field, the data gets cut
off at a different position than in Crystal Reports, sometimes even in the middle of a character.
If I could query the length of the rendered output, I could shorten the input data until the rendered
output would fit in the field.
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I think that you are looking for something like this:
var
oW = xfa.layout.w(txtDescription, "in");
The paramaters that are passed are the field name and the units that you want the result returned in. This will give you the width of the field after layout has occured (so if a field is dynamic you are getting the width after the field has been expanded).
Paul
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Thank you Paul!!
That is exactly what I needed. I appreciate your help.
Alex
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