# Dragged distance? Multiline Textfield Height?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragged-distance-multiline-textfield-height/277092
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 7, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragged-distance-multiline-textfield-height/277092 "2008-12-07T18:12:50Z")
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### Author: ![youwh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/82dd89/32.png) [@youwh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/youwh)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragged-distance-multiline-textfield-height/277092/1 "2008-12-07T18:12:50Z")

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1. How can I detect the distance I have draged my object to run an action rather than using a hitTest?

2.how do you get the height of an external loaded text with multiline?

i keep tracing small numbers that maybe represented just a line?