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Chapter 3 - Word Processing Views / Word Processing View Reference

Protos / protoTXView

GetCountCharacters

protoTXView:GetCountCharacters()

return value

The integer number of characters in the specified word-processing view.

DISCUSSION

Returns the number of characters in a word-processing view.

This cannot be called before ViewSetupDoneScript gets called, since the document won't have been initialized yet.