At 12:00am -0800 01-02-21, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: a BUG with FldSetScrollPosition () in OS 3.5???
>From: Paul Nevai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 06:45:29 -0500 (EST)
>X-Message-Number: 19
>
>Hi Guys:
>
>This happens with OS 3.5 both in POSE and my Palm Vx and my TRGPro.
>
>I have a menu item doing a FldSetScrollPosition (fldP, 0); job [and nothing
>else]. The menu also has the command key "T".
>
>I have a reasonably long text so that that when I am at the bottom of the
>field, then the top is not visible. The cursor is enabled and is at the end
>of the text.
>
>When I use the menu, the field scrolls to the top and everything is
>perfect.
>
>If I do the same operation via command-T, then again the field scrolls to the
>top BUT there is a ghost cursor blinking at the same spot on the screen
>where the original cursor was.
>
>What the heck is going on? Best regards, Paul [the pedit guy]
Sounds like yet another field/insertion point sync bug. Does it also
happen in 4.0?
>P.S. I noticed that MemoPad used to have such a command up-to 3.5 but in 3.5
>they removed it [was this the reason?].
No. The go-to-top & go-to-bottom commands were useful when the OS
didn't support a scrollbar, as otherwise the user would have to sit
there pressing the up or down scroll buttons until they got to the
top or bottom.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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