BK_Shorts and TextArea

[LiamP]

I’ve been away for a while and am trying to get back into coding some stuff for in-house use - not for resale. I have BK_Shorts installed from quite a few years ago but it still works with my current code.

I don’t use the report generator - I write the actual code to generate the report. I need to print the information entered into a textarea on a Xojo window on a report. I remember your have to parse the text to divide it into individual lines of the desired length but have forgotten exactly how to do that.

If someone has some sample code I would be extremely grateful.

I’m using Xojo 2024 2.1 with MacOS 26.1 Tahoe.

Thanks in advance

[Keith_Culotta]

This post has some code to split the text.

Reports: variable height text and body workaround

The module, ReportML, in the attached demo is a native code workaround for printing variable height columns in a report. It takes a RowSet and some Report information, and returns a RowSet that looks like an expandable text report when printed the usual way. The project’s Window1 has a demo in the Print button. Call like: MyRowSet = ReportML.RowSetForReport(MyRowSet,MyReport,ArrayOfReportField, “optional string to visually separate records”) and then print MyRowSet in the report. Notes: R…

[Tim_Parnell]

@LiamP

I remember your have to parse the text to divide it into individual lines of the desired length but have forgotten exactly how to do that.

I believe shorts does that for you. I remember a routine for line breaking in the shorts text area object.

(I no longer have access to Shorts and can’t verify)

[Daniel_Fritzsche]

There is a class called PrintText when the draw method is called it calls an graphics extension method GetWrapLines which does what you want.