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Hey, I'm using the text layout component offered by adobe labs. I read the documentation and now capable of doing almost all what I need. I just have a small problem. Lets say I have a text layout object on my stage containing some text. How can I know the height of the text or the number of lines in it ???
I found their is a porperty: "contentHeight" and a method "calculateHeight()" but they are in another class of the libraries that comes with the text layout component. I don't know how to reach them. Please help and write me the lines of code that do this job.
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Well I was going to suggest that you post in the TLF forums, http://forums.adobe.com/community/labs/textlayout.
But you seem to have found those. So instead I will suggest that you don't cross-post.
Really if anybody could answer that it would be the folks there. I know there isn't a lot of traffic in those forums, but that is because the TLF is really insanely complicated and it is still beta. But it looks like most questions there do get some kind of answer....

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