cl_gui_textedit: how to get the line length?

[former_member472017]

Hi everybody!

How can I get the character length of a line in a cl_gui_textedit?

Thank you!

[monalisa_biswal]

Use CALL METHOD lr_text_edit->get_text_as_r3table
        IMPORTING
          table = lt_text.   " text as R/3 table to get text in internal table. 

Then loop into the internal table and use strlen function to find length of each line.

[former_member472017]

Hi Monalisa!

Thank you for your answer! Probably I didn't formulate my question clear enough. I don't want to know how many characters have been entered in each line so far (and this is whatt strlen will return), but rather how many characters can be entered in each line, e.g. in the width of the text window. There should be, no doubt, a simple way to find this out.

Best regards

Alexander.

[monalisa_biswal]

You can specify wordwrap_position for the text editor as given below: This will wrap text to next line after the specified number of characters

* 255 chars in one line 
 CREATE OBJECT lr_text_edit
      EXPORTING
        wordwrap_mode     = 2 " 0: OFF; 1: wrap a window border; 2: wrap at fixed pos
        wordwrap_position = 254   " pos of wordwrap, only makes sense with wordwrap_mode=2
        parent   = lr_custom_cont.     " Parent Container

[Sandra_Rossi]

For the same window size, you'll be able to enter 100 "l" but only 50 "W", because of the proportional font, so the answer will be "variable". Could you explain why you need the "line length" please?

[muttepawar-2009]

CL_GUI_TEXTEDIT limit lines