TextField not displaying text after \n

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#1

I am writing a small game in OpenFL (after migrating from AS3) and I stumbled upon a possible problem with the TextField.
I have a text that contains ‘\n’ characters. Using this code, I set that text to my TextField:

            this.textFormat = new TextFormat(Assets.getFont("fonts/arial.ttf").fontName);
            this.textFormat.size = 20;
            this.textFormat.color = 0xffffff;
            this.textFormat.align = TextFormatAlign.LEFT;

            textField = new TextField();
            textField.multiline = true;
            textField.wordWrap = true;
            textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
            textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
            textField.embedFonts = true;
            textField.selectable = false;
            textField.text = displayText;
            textField.width = layout.storyTextFieldWidth() + 5;
            textField.height = textField.textHeight;
            textField.x = layout.storyTextFieldPozition().x;
            textField.setTextFormat(this.textFormat);

The problem is, that after the first ‘\n’ character, no text is displayed. The height however is set correctly, just like there was text there.

I tried compiling both for HTML and for Windows (with -neko), but the problem persists. Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem in the implementation of the TextField?

UPDATE: I tried using htmlText. Using < br > I get the same result (nothing displayed after < br >). Also, using any tags (i, b, etc.) causes no text to be displayed at all.

#2

Replace
textField.height = textField.textHeight;
with
textField.height = 30;//or any other number to discard if the problem is there
//or trace textField.textHeight and check if it’s what you expect for

i think that textField.textHeight is the size of the font
but textField.height is the size of the text container, the box

but i’m not sure, so try and trace those numbers
._.

#3

I was just working with the height. You are partially correct. The textHeight is not th eheight of the font, but the textHeight as displayed, however (and this is something I saw in flash as well), it not 100% accurate. Most of the time it is off by 10-20 pixels for larger texts.

Adding and extra 30 solved the problem.

#4

textHeight is the height (in pixels) of the text after wrapping, not including margin or borders. height includes the margin and/or borders, so you get the actual height of the DisplayObject, and not the height of the inner text if that makes sense.

#5

If you set wordWrap = true and autoSize = LEFT, then OpenFL should figure out the height for you.

#6

That was my initial thought as well, but id does not. I get the same result as setting the height manually to textHeight.
Still, a quick fix is adding the border (aprox 20px).