How To Get The Height Of Area Of A Multiline Text

Solar2D Widgets
#1

I have a list that contains some texts and images that going to be downloaded. I have to set the coordinates of the image below the text and as the text is multiline, I need some way to find the exact height of the text area to set image properly after it.

Can someone here suggest me how to tackle it.

Thanks in advance

#2

I’m pretty sure it’s just 

[lua]

myText.contentHeight

[/lua]

C

#3

Thank you so much…
I was doing something wrong in handling wrapping of text.

#4

I’m pretty sure it’s just 

[lua]

myText.contentHeight

[/lua]

C

#5

Thank you so much…
I was doing something wrong in handling wrapping of text.

#6

myText.contentHeight returns full height of myText object.

for example:

myText = display.newEmbossedText("very\_big\_text\_here", 0, 0, 400,100, nil, 20) print(myText.contentHeight)  

and i get 112. how i can detect text height only?

#7

you should set the height parameter to 0 …

myText = display.newEmbossedText("very\_big\_text\_here", 0, 0, 400,0, nil, 20) print(myText.contentHeight) or  print(myText.height)  
#8

thank you!

#9

myText.contentHeight returns full height of myText object.

for example:

myText = display.newEmbossedText("very\_big\_text\_here", 0, 0, 400,100, nil, 20) print(myText.contentHeight)  

and i get 112. how i can detect text height only?

#10

you should set the height parameter to 0 …

myText = display.newEmbossedText("very\_big\_text\_here", 0, 0, 400,0, nil, 20) print(myText.contentHeight) or  print(myText.height)  
#11

thank you!