Calculates the height of a fixed-width area required to print the entire text that uses the current font.
Remark: This function must not be used in the "Opening" event of the report.
// Selects a font
iFont(FontNum)
// Retrieves the height of the column
dHeight is real = iAreaHeight("My Text", 100)
// Draws a border
iBorder(0, 0, dHeight*2, 200)
Syntax
<Result> = iAreaHeight(<Text> , <Area width> [, <Type> [, <Beginning> [, <End>]]])
<Result>: Real
Height of the area (in millimeters) allowing to entire text to be printed.
<Text>: Character string
Text to print. This text can be in RTF or HTML. This string must be encoded using UTF-8. If necessary, use StringToUTF8 to perform the conversion.
<Area width>: Real
Width of area (in millimeters).
<Type>: Optional constant
Type of text to print:
| |
| iHTML | Text in HTML format. |
 New in version 28iMarkdown | Markdown text. |
| iRTF | Text in RTF. |
iText
(default value) | Normal text. |
<Beginning>: Optional integer
Index of the first <Text> character to print. If this parameter is not specified, the first character of the string is used.
<End>: Optional integer
Index of the last <Text> character to print. If this parameter is not specified, the last character of the string is used.
Business / UI classification: Neutral code