On Oct 14, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> There is a property called the formattedHeight. There is also a property for
> the current scroll, not sure what it is called. Once you know the number of
> lines you have all the variables sorted. Between them you should get pretty
> close if
There is a property called the formattedHeight. There is also a property for
the current scroll, not sure what it is called. Once you know the number of
lines you have all the variables sorted. Between them you should get pretty
close if not dead on.
Bob
On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Ralph D
om] On Behalf Of Ken Ray
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 1:38 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: Visible lines in a scrolling field.
On Oct 14, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
> Does anyone know how to find out what lines are currently visible in a
field
> with a vertical scrollb
On Oct 14, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
> Does anyone know how to find out what lines are currently visible in a field
> with a vertical scrollbar?
That depends… is this a list field or regular field? If a regular field, do you
have dontWrap turned on, or not?
> More importantly can
Ralph,
I would perform some calculations based on the textHeight and scroll of the
field in question. You should know how many of the field's lines are displayed
so this should give you the vertical coordinates of the field; calculate the
rect of the top line and select that rectangle. This sh
Does anyone know how to find out what lines are currently visible in a field
with a vertical scrollbar? More importantly can I find out just before they
are scrolling into view so I can do some stuff to the line(s) just before/as
they become visible? If I process all the lines (say for 2-3 hundred)
