Re: calculating line length in paragraph for custom styling

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 02/16/2003 17:46:43

Currently it's not possible.

I added this problem in to-do list

> Does anyone know of a good way, or is it even possible to calculate

> the longest line in a paragraph during OnDrawParaBack?

> I need to provide some custom paragraph formatting. The MaxTextWidth

> of the TRichViewEdit is set to keep a specified column width. So if

> the user just types until the text wraps around the longest line would

> be equal to calculating textwidth x maxtextwidth.

> The problem is that a user can use Shift-Enter to break a line within

> a paragraph. Or could even just type one short line in the paragraph.

> In this case is it possible to calculate the longest line when

> OnDrawParaBack is fired?

> Thanks