The width of a drawing area is generally only set with the second (same) command. Why?

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@Micha_Kraus

The app basically calculates the width of the area correctly for the first command, but after assigning the calculated area width to the area when I call it up as a property, it gives me the original, unchanged width

Can you provide an example text?
Also I did not understand, what exactly you are calculating?

Are you looking for the length of the text? But why don't you just use the length method from the text drawer?

Is this an empty text block or is there an empty string inside?

It would be nice to switch the language to English before taking a screenshot...

Generally Use the companion app and Do it to debug your blocks, see also tip 4 here App Inventor: How to Learn | Pura Vida Apps
see also Live Development, Testing, and Debugging Tools

FAQ Section: Debugging

Introductory Testing techniques, including Do It - MIT Sample Connect -> Companion sequence - @ABG How to Read and Understand a Runtime Error Message - @ABG Common Runtime Errors - @TimAI2 How to Teach Debugging thread - Feb 2025 Advanced Do It' to view procedure results, event arguments and local variables How to run Logcat How to use Do It in a loop Screen1.ErrorOccured message numbers SteveJG monster list of things you should not do How to show raw responseContent from your app wh…

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