Final text box resizer for text members

 

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Resizes the width and height of a text members bounding box. Faster and smoother than before. Final version. I promise.

-- Dynamic bounding text box adjustment behaviour v3final -- -- By Jeff Murray March 14th 2001 / v2 July 12th 2001 / v3 October 4th 2001 -- -- http://www.psychicparrot.com -- -- -- just drop this behaviour onto a text sprite that you want to resize dynamically and change the -- TargetMem variable (make a bitmap cast member - just a single pixel will do - then use the -- member number of your new bitmap i.e. set targetmem to equal your new bitmap member.) -- to use : sendallsprites(#setwidth) property maxx,mycolor,sourceMem property sourceImage,imageWidth,imageHeight1 property imageHeight,sourceColor property spritenum global ed,eobj,gzfactor on beginSprite me      sprite(spritenum).member.boxtype = #fixed   sprite(spritenum).member.alignment = #left    end beginSprite on setWidth me      -- set up variable default values        maxx = 0   sourceMem = sprite(spritenum).member   TargetMem = 6 -- temporary bitmap member for processing the bitmap      -- size up text box to allow for expanding as well as cropping      sourceMem.width = 1760      -- get parameters for new member      sourceImage = member(sourceMem).image   imageWidth = sourceImage.width   imageHeight = sourceImage.height   sourceRect = sourceImage.rect   destRect = sourceImage.rect      -- turn that damn wordwrap off!      member(sourceMem).wordwrap= FALSE      -- copyPixels bit to copy text member into a bitmap member        newImage = image(imageWidth,imageHeight,1,0)   (newImage).copyPixels(sourceImage, destRect, sourceRect)   member(targetMem).image = newImage   member(targetMem).regPoint = point(0,0)   workingImage = member(targetmem).image.duplicate()     workingImage = workingImage.trimWhiteSpace()   imageWidth = workingImage.width      -- set the original text box to the new value discovered above.        sprite(spritenum).member.width = imageWidth + 5      -- set the height to take the top space out      sprite(spritenum).member.fixedLineSpace = sprite(spritenum).member.fontsize    end