JavaFX 8 count rows in “textarea”

Question

We are trying to count the number of rows in a TextArea
Here are the TextArea properties PrefWidth 600 and PrefHeight 620 with MaxHeight 620
Wrap Text is set to true. We

Answer 1

Grendel this code seems to complicate the task of counting the \n by using the String[ ] array. This code posted below

    // This counts ENTER key presses
String toCount = txaDiaryEntry.getText();
String [] lineArray = toCount.split("\n");
LA = lineArray.length - 1;

if(LA == tLA){
    tLA = LA + 1;
    RC = RC - 1;
}else if(tLA < LA){
        tLA = LA + 1;
         RC = RC - 1;
}else{  

So rather than deal with the String [ ] array here is a little less code that just counts the occurrences of \n and as your original code did it subtracts a given number of characters

    String toCount = txaDiaryEntry.getText();
    S = toCount.split("\n",-1).length - 1;
    RowCount = RowCount - 1;    
    // This test counter
    int minus = EC+(S * 40);
    int val = 1200 - minus ;

All the code to deal with the String [ ] array was clever but way crazy and hard to follow. Now you can play with the number 40 for perhaps a more realistic character count?