ireland@ac.dal.ca (03/23/90)
I'm writing a stack which has a scrolling text field that it used to store long strings (up to 5000 characters). I want to have 50 characters on each line. The problem is that I get word wrapping a different positions on different lines. I am using a monospaced font (Monaco 12) and all of the characters are letters of the alphabet. I have read that HC has a bug which causes lines which end in certain characters to wrap incorrectly, but I am not using these characters. My work around up til now have been to keep track of the length of the string and insert spaces after every 50 characters. Now I would like to be able to search the text with find chars and the spaces prevent finding character sequences which are broken by the word wrapping. I would greatly appreciate any help with this problem. I should have mentioned previously that most lines contain 50 chars, but an occasional one will have 51 characters. I haven't been able to find a text field width which will always have 50 characters per line. Thanks, Keith