Size Vertically To Text

[JB]

As you all know, LV offers a Size To Text menu entry which resizes a text frame to its contained text.

While documenting my code (free text on diagram), I would often use a Size Vertically To Text function. This new menu entry should behave like the Size to Text Method (for string controls on the front panel) --> resize the text frame vertically to show all text without resizing it horizontally.

[JB]

It might be useful to mention that I don't insert line feeds when typing these comments because this makes it much easier to (re)adjust them to the available/desired (and probably changing) space on the diagram.

1. Manually resize the text frame width to get a nice looking arrangement of the words.
2. Use this new menu entry to let LV fit the height of the text frame to the number of lines (--> faster and more accurate than by hand).

Because it resizes the text to one line, Size To Text would impose you to restart at point 1 !

[fabric]

Some applications (e.g. Adobe Indesign) let you achieve this by simply double-clicking on the "drag dot" on the bottom edge... It initiates a size to fit, but only in that one dimension. Would that work for you?

[JB]

Yes, this would be a very pleasant solution.

[fabric]

Great - I'm giving kudos for the idea, although I don't think it warrants a new menu option