[TYPO3] gifbuilder / GMENU font height problem

[Peter]

Peter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got an issue that's bugging me, any pointers appreciated:
> 
> I have a GMENU with some items that span more than one line. Using 
> multi-line items means that I have to use calc to set the image height 
> for each menu item.
> 
> However, thanks to a combination of the font and the text used in the 
> menu items, the single-line items come out at 3 or 4 different heights 
> depending on the charachters used.
> 
> If I weren't using multi-line, I'd stop using calc and this would solve 
> the problem.
> 
> None of min, useLargestY and distributeY are appropriate as the single 
> line and multi-line menu items are supposed to be different.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Peter.

In the absence of useful info, I ended up creating a text object that 
uses the full height of the font by having a range of characters hidden 
using an offset. Possibly not the most elegant solution, but works for me.


lib.mainNav = HMENU
lib.mainNav {
   1 = GMENU
   1 {
     NO = 1
     NO {
       1 = TEXT
       1 {
         fontFile = fileadmin/fonts/CGOR65W.TTF
         fontColor = #ffffcc
         fontSize = 18
         offset = 200,200
         align = left
         niceText = 1
       }
       10 < .1
       10.text.field = title
       10.offset = 5,20
       1.text = QWERTYUIOP qwertyuiop
       XY = 200,[1.h]+10
       ....
     }
     RO < .NO
     ....
   }
   2 {
    ....
   }
   ....
}


Feature request: maybe a lineheight property could be added to 
GMENU/TEXT / GIFBUILDER/TEXT objects?

Peter.