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I know I can get the lines of a field, which tells me how many return-delimited chunks of text there are. But is there a way to determine the 'effective' lines of a field? Say I have one string with no returns in the middle, but it's long enough to linewrap into three 'effective', visual lines. (A bit like this post!) Can I find this out through scripting?

Replying to my own question *again*...

Seems that the textHeightSum tells me the total height of the lines of text in pixels. Finding the 'effective textHeight' of the field tells me the line spacing, I can work out the number of visual lines from that, with a bit of sanity checking to CMA.

Not sure if this will help, but look here:

http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/2 ... -wrap-text

That's not quite what I was playing towards (a more accurate phrase than "working towards") but it's a great example for a related process. Thanks!

Hi Keith,

isn't the formattedText what you are looking for?

Suppose you have text in a field that has it dontWrap set to false, i.e. the text wraps. You want to know how many visual lines are in the field
or I am not getting it.

Kind regards
Bernd

Rereading your original post (why is there always time to do that but never time to do so in the first place?) Bernd's suggestion is just what you wanted. He gets it.

Craig

Of course it's an easy one-liner too, no two-step process needed:
Thanks!