function to calculate string length...

[Chipp Walters]

Wouter,

Thanks. Got it. Different strategy, but nice:-)

Wouter wrote:

> Chipp, sorry for the delayed response due to festivities.
> My other handler is using the difference in number of lines of a field 
> and the number of lines of the formattedtext of the same field if the 
> text is "wrapped". And it is useless if the words in the list field are 
> very long and the width of the field is very small (as it uses the word 
> wrap done by the engine).
> Hugh also pointed out that the character used for the ellipsis is 
> differently mapped in windows and mac.
> Mac uses the numtochar(201) while windows uses numtochar(133) (according 
> to Hugh).
> So back to the use of the normal 3 points and optimizing your original 
> handler.


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