Scrolling text w/o scroll bars in iOS

[Randy Hengst]

Thank you Jacque… I'll give it go.

take care,
randy hengst
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On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 3/7/11 9:02 PM, Randy Hengst wrote:
>> I'd love to see a specific example of scrolling one text
>> field with the iOS scroller showing. I really haven't been able to
>> organize the overlay deal.
> 
> I just did a quick one, it works fine. Make a copy of the Scroller Example in the Mobile Resources folder. Edit the main "imageScroller" group, add a locked field and delete all the images. Put some text into the field and set the height of the field tall enough to hold all the text. Mine was 800 pixels high. Set the width to something close to the width of the scroller control; mine was 300. Set the top of the field to the top of the scroller; mine was at 4.
> 
> Edit the card script. In the "contentRect" part of the preOpenCard handler, change the dimensions to that of your field:
> 
>  iphoneControlSet sScrollerId, "contentRect", (0, 0, 300, 800)
> 
> That's all I had to do. It scrolls smoothly up and down in the simulator. You can set the "canBounce" to true if you want it to have that little bob at the ends that iOS does.
> 
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