Livecode/iOS Find and Scroll To

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/14/12 10:05 PM, Rick Harrison wrote:
> Hi Peter & Jacqueline,
>
> The field is a native iOS control field so I don't think formatted height
> is going to get me out of this one so easily.
>
> What I've come up with thus far is that I'm using a mirrored approach
> with a LiveCode field as my test subject.  I set the font and text size to
> the same as used in the iOS native field.  The find is performed in the
> LiveCode field.  I then grab the parameters I need such as the vScroll
> value and then scroll the iOS native field to the same position minus
> a slight adjustment value to bring the found text to the center of the
> scrolling field. (So somewhat similar in concept to what Peter was suggesting.)

I see, it's an input field, not a scrolling field. You're doing pretty 
much what I was going to suggest. I do like the formattedheight idea; 
you can keep your LiveCode field invisible that way and just use it for 
the calculations.

 >
 > I'd like to programmatically select the text in the iOS field, but have
 > yet to find a way that isn't some crazy work around, like I've been 
doing.

I can't even find a crazy workaround for selections.

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