Blitz Basic 2 basics - Page 14

Nightshft · 01 February 2022, 13:50

Tried it. Works super fine. Thanks a lot Rob!

E-Penguin · 09 February 2022, 21:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stejjie

How do you get text to wrap in a window you've opened, rather than have it "fall off" the edge? I'm sure I used to know, but can't remember for the life of me!

There's an OS call to get the length of a string, in pixels, if printed to a given RastPort. You could use it to implement wrapping by testing whether the line would fit in the window or whether it needs to be split.

http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD.../node0485.html

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