Not sure if this helps but as of 6.1 there is a property named pageheights which lists, one per line, the height in pixels of each page of a field. Check the dictionary for more details.
Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:29 PM, James Hale <ja...@thehales.id.au> wrote: > Regarding paging of text. > > I too have wanted to do this and have been flummoxed by the nature of text > fields and their visual appearance capabilities. Unfair I know but still > annoying. > I borrowed a solution from a stack on Livecodeshare (the name of which > escapes me, not being at my desk.) > Firstly you will need to set the text height as fixed for the fields to > get any consistency in the results. > Unless there is a large difference in text heights within the field I have > found it safe to set a value that accommodates the largest and leave it at > that. Sure the visual line spacing is increased, but not so as to make one > concerned. > Secondly use two fields, one for each page, side by side, grouped with > their tops at the same level. > The group's height is set to the height of the virtual page that you want, > and both field's heights are set to the formatted height of the content of > field 1. (At this stage, this is the same for both fields). > Now scrolling the group will scroll both fields in sync. > To get different page chunks on each page ( and allow for a blank page at > the end of the second field) I simply added <return> Characters to the end > of the second field. The number being equal to the group's height divided > by the textheight setting of the fields. (Hence the requirement for fixed > text height.) > Lastly I set the vscroll of the second field to the height of the group. > (Remember its height was equal to the formatted height of field 1 but now > has extra content and so can be scrolled.) > Now the second field (page 2) seems to start where the first field ends. > To page, just have a button that increases or decreases the vscroll of the > group by the height of the group. > It works surprisingly well. > > James > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode