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VFP5 EditBox: Any way to tell how many lines?
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06/08/1999 17:54:38
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Visual FoxPro
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Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
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00250939
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00252935
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>Is there any sample code for figuring out how many lines the current value of an EditBox is taking up, taking into account font and wrapping issues?
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>I want to auto-size my editbox to as small a size as can hold the arbitrary text passed in (or optionally, is there some way to get TextBoxes to display multi-line text?).
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>Thanks as always,
>
>-- jas

You can parse the value:

lines = occurs(chr(13),edit.value)

Then set your height by calling wfont(2) which returns the size.
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