[Laszlo-dev] Text height problem with <edittext>?

[André Bargull]

If there is any confusion about flash text-metrics, you can take a look 
at the ref for "TextLineMetrics" [1], which explains how flash treats 
text-height (especially the 2px-gutter).

 From "LzTextSprite.prototype.getTextHeight":
> * This is the height of a single line of text in the current format
>  * *NOTE: this is not the clip textHeight, which "when autoSize is true
>  * is always 4 pixels less than _height" (which might explain the need
>  * for emulate_flash_font_metrics in DHTML?)*.

[1] 
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextLineMetrics.html


> This is surely fallout from r9824 which was to fix the computation of  
> getTextHeight (c.f., LPP-4651).  So, either I got that fix wrong, or,  
> apps were compensating for that measurement being wrong and now look  
> wrong because the measurement is right.
>
> Feel free to ping me if you have questions, but perhaps you should  
> start by reviewing r9824 to see if you can spot an error.  Max did  
> review it, Henry it is still awaiting your review, and Don, feel free  
> to chime in!
>
> On 2008-06-23, at 16:17 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
>
>   
>> > I see this in the weather demo input text box. The text appears
>> > scrunched in the upper left, and not even close to centered, in
>> > Firefox/swf8/OSX.
>> >
>> > I can't find any existing bug report filed on this, though
>> > I'm sure I saw it mentioned in email in the last week or so.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Donald Anderson  
>> > <dda at ddanderson.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> >> Hello all,
>>> >> I've been assigned LPP-6503, which seems to be a more general problem
>>> >> with <edittext>.  To see this, open:
>>> >> http://localhost:8080/trunk-doc5/docs/reference/lz.edittext.html
>>> >> In the example, notice how the text in the edit box is very high.   
>>> >> Start
>>> >> adding
>>> >> more text and it moves up another pixel or two.   I see this on  
>>> >> Safari
>>> >> and Firefox on OSX.  Maybe it has been reported already?
>>> >> - Don
>>> >> On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Lou Iorio (JIRA) wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>    [
>>> >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-6503?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
>>> >> ]
>>> >>
>>> >> Lou Iorio updated LPP-6503:
>>> >> ---------------------------
>>> >>
>>> >>    Summary: refGuide - text input field on the Contents tab of the  
>>> >> nav pane
>>> >> cutting off text  (was: refGuide - textinput field in refGuide tab  
>>> >> browser
>>> >> not functioning properly)
>>> >>   Assignee: Donald Anderson  (was: Lou Iorio)
>>> >>
>>> >> refGuide - text input field on the Contents tab of the nav pane  
>>> >> cutting off
>>> >> text
>>> >>
>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >>
>>> >>               Key: LPP-6503
>>> >>
>>> >>               URL: http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-6503
>>> >>
>>> >>           Project: OpenLaszlo
>>> >>
>>> >>        Issue Type: Bug
>>> >>
>>> >>        Components: Documentation - RefGuide
>>> >>
>>> >>  Affects Versions: RingDingTools (4.1 Ref Guide + Tools)
>>> >>
>>> >>       Environment: FF3/XP
>>> >>
>>> >>          Reporter: Lee Lundrigan
>>> >>
>>> >>          Assignee: Donald Anderson
>>> >>
>>> >> when you type data into the text input field the text is not  
>>> >> centered in the
>>> >> field but raised up towards the top, some parts of the text leaving  
>>> >> the
>>> >> field.
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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>>> >> -
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>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Don Anderson
>>> >> Java/C/C++, Berkeley DB, systems consultant
>>> >>
>>> >> voice: 617-547-7881
>>> >> email: dda at ddanderson.com
>>> >> www: http://www.ddanderson.com
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>>       
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > Henry Minsky
>> > Software Architect
>> > hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>