list field-a race to the bottom

[J. Landman Gay]

Rich Lague wrote:

> I'm not sure that is exactly my problem. The hilited line is already 
> visible-- it was just clicked on. It jumps the hilited line from 
> wherever it is in field to the very bottom line of the field. However, I 
> can see that your suggestion will work for what I want. I'll give it a go.

Yeah, that's been a thing with the engine since before Runtime got it. I 
asked Scott Raney to fix it but he wouldn't do it (not sure why) and the 
way the thing jumped around in MetaCard's control browser was enough to 
drive you batty. Some of us altered the script in our own copies of the 
MC IDE to do as Sarah suggested. The MC fix was different, but in most 
cases you'd want to do something like catch mousedown, store the scroll 
somewhere (custom prop, global or local variable, etc.) and on mouseup, 
restore it.

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