Formula for textbox size/lines/fontsize?

Leozack · Apr 21, 2008

hi all - I was wondering if there was a formula for textbox size/lines/fontsize. eg given a textboxes size and the fontsize could you calculate how many lines would fit, for deciding whether you show a scrollbar etc? Or given an amount of lines and a fontsize know how big to make the textbox? I hope there is one, I'm using custom bodgejob stuff atm x.x'

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Leozack

Code:

MakeUniverse($infinity,1,42);

Leozack · Apr 21, 2008

I made a table comparing verdana fontsize with the minimum lineheight in flash incase anyone can make any formulas from this data? I can't see any patterns :/

Code:

verdana :
Fontsize	Minimum height	size->height	height% of size
100	=	125	=	+25	=	125%
50	=	64	=	+14	=	128%
25	=	34	=	+9	=	136%
10	=	16	=	+6	=	160%
5	=	10	=	+5	=	200%

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Leozack

Code:

MakeUniverse($infinity,1,42);

MJB3K · Apr 22, 2008

its almost as if its the value there / 2 + 2, but not 100% accurate...

tricky 1...

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Leozack · Apr 24, 2008

Which value do you mean? And yeah I can't work this out, but surely somewhere there is a formula? Or at least just a way to know how big textboxes will be by the text in them etc? Or fitting text to fill a textbox etc?

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Leozack

Code:

MakeUniverse($infinity,1,42);

Leozack · May 8, 2008

I've tried some more and still can't work this out. Surely someone somewhere knows of a way or has tested it manually and made a cahrt/table or something? Anything at all would help - both with "how big would a textbox need to be based on amounts of text of known size" and "what size should this text be to fit inside a box of known size" etc

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Leozack

Code:

MakeUniverse($infinity,1,42);

Leozack · May 10, 2008

Would .textHeight or .scroll be helpful for this issue?

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Leozack

Code:

MakeUniverse($infinity,1,42);

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