Keeping a field scroll at the bottom as lines come in

[Dan Friedman]

Rob,

Let me also welcome you to Revolution!  When I add text to list fields, I
usually want to hilite the new line of text.  So, here's what I do:


on addALineOfText someText, fieldName
   put the number of lines in field fieldName into nLine
   put someText into line nLine+1 of field fieldName
   set the hilitedLines of field fieldName to nLine+1
end addALineOfText


Setting the hilitedLines of a list field will automatically scroll the field
to that line.

Hope that helps...

-Dan



> Greetings, My first post, and a naive one, I suspect..
> 
> I am using an interactive mode to send a line of text to the end of a
> field ('after') which is visible. Then, as the field fills, it doesn't
> scroll to show the last line, it just moves the thumb upwards.
> 
> I'd really like to see the last line entered, irrespective of the
> length of the field. Can this be done?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -- 
> All best wishes,
> Rob