the line number of the top line in a text field

[Mike Bonner]

I'm not sure this is a good way to do so, but maybe it will work for you.

I created a field with different text sizes/line heights.

In a button is the following script

on mouseUp
   lock screen
   put globalloc(the topleft of field 1) into tFieldLoc -- get the
screenloc position of the topleft of the field
   put the screenmouseloc into tOldLoc -- save the old mouseloc
   set the screenmouseloc to tFieldLoc --point to the topleft of the field
   wait 10 milliseconds with messages -- this is required for the engine to
do its mouse thang
   put the mouseline -- Tells you what line the mouse is pointing at
   set the screenmouseloc to tOldLoc -- back to the old location
   unlock screen
end mouseUp

It would probably work with a wait of zero unless there are a ton of
pending messages (not sure exactly how that part works, does it process all
pending messages before returning control no matter what wait delay is set?)


On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 1:51 AM, James Hale <james at thehales.id.au> wrote:

> Is there a way to determine the line number of the top line of a text
> field?
>
> The field's textheight is NOT set as the text present comes from html and
> different heading levels are present.
>
> Context:
> I am using an rTree object to provide an hierarchical list of these
> headings and clicking on a node within the tree scrolls the field so that
> the appropriate line is placed at the top of the field.
>
> Issue:
> I would like to display the current section (heading) name in a small
> "heading" field above the display field based on the user scrolling through
> the field.
> As they scroll past the next heading line I would like the "heading" field
> to reflect this.
>
> However there doesn't seem to be a way of going the other way. Getting the
> line of the field sitting at the top of the field.
>
> Its as if the field contents and its actual display are using two
> different systems, text chunks versus pixel graphics.
> Livecode can seemlessly go from specifying the text chunk translating it
> to the appropriate pixel value of the vscroll, but it can't do the reverse.
>
>
> James
>
>
>
>
>
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