Text Member Director bug?

Hi there,
Whilst trying to track down what I though was my own bug, I
discovered that
with Director 8.5's text member charPosToLoc() function I
seem to have found
a strange anomaly....
1. Create a text member. Set framing to Adjust To Fit and
wordWrap to on.
2. Starting with an empty member type text into it until the
first line, is
almost filled.
3. Type a row of empty space chars (not they do not force the
text member to
return to the second line).
4. Put the member.charPosToLoc(member.char.count).
5. You will observe that the resulting loc.locH is way beyond
the right hand
edge of the text member's width!
Can anyone replicate, or suggest a work around? It's a real
problem for one
aspect of my Chatroom project.
Thanks experts!
Richard Smith

"Chunick" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:evqp6l$nq4$[email protected]..
> I'm also working on a chat, but using mx2004... and it
still occurs in
> mx2004
> as well. Seems to be a bug that has carried over to the
newest version.
> Can I
> ask the context to which you're needing to set the text
member to adjust
> to fit
> with wordwrap?... it seems like you are trying to set up
chat bubbles or
> something.
Yes, you are quite right, very observant! :)
I had a bug with my smiley placement within the bubbles, but
that work
around fixed it. Ain't smiley placement a pain ? ;)
Cheers, and good luck with your chatroom!
Richard

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"Couch" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:e61o7c$91$[email protected]..
> Hi,
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>
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>
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>

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