scrolling to a line

[Charles Hartman]

On Nov 13, 2005, at 12:47 PM, MisterX wrote:

>
> try select before line lo of me
>
> or something like that, no that don't work in list fields
>
> set the hilitedline of me to lo (0 works ok! ;)

I don't think so, unless I'm being even denser than usual. If there's  
no match at all, 'lo' will contain 0, so no scroll at all.

>
> ;)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>> Charles Hartman
>> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 17:08
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: scrolling to a line
>>
>> I've modified Xavier's modification of my modification of
>> (somebody's??) code to search incrementally in a sorted list field.
>> (This version, unlike Xavier's, assumes the whole line in the
>> field is the sorted item.)
>>
>> But it doesn't solve one problem: suppose the user starts
>> typing a string that doesn't appear in the list? If the first
>> few letters match something, this scrolls to pretty close.
>> But suppose nothing starts with 'Q' and the user starts by
>> typing a 'q'? The list won't scroll at all. What would be
>> nicer would be to scroll to the place where an item beginning
>> with 'q' *would* be if there were one. I've only thought
>> about it for a few minutes, but it's already given me a
>> headache. Any clues?
>>
>> local kTyped, lastKeyTime
>> on keyUp theKey
>>      if lastKeyTime is empty or the seconds - lastKeyTime > 3
>>      then put theKey into kTyped
>>      else put theKey after kTyped
>>      put the seconds into lastKeyTime
>>      put lineOffset(CR & kTyped, me) into lo
>>      if lo is not 0
>>      then set the scroll of me to lo * the effective
>> textHeight of me end keyUp
>>
>> Charles Hartman
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