Scrolling by script

[Bob Sneidar]

On a completely unrelated topic, why do people put asterisks in their code before posting it? It must serve some purpose, but I can't deduce what it may be. 

Bob


On May 20, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> That works as you said it would but if the selected line is not in the
> middle third of the lines, it's not visible.
> 
> The following code seems to work:
> 
> *i*f the hilitedline of me > 12 then
> 
>  set the vscroll of me to (word 2 of the selectedline of me - 12) * the
> textheight of me
> 
> end if
> 
> *
> *
> 
> 12 is the magic number because it's half the number of visble lines in the
> list.
> 
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:26 AM, J. Landman Gay
> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> 
>> Try div 3 instead of div 2. That should set the scroll so that a third of
>> the text is off the top, a third is in the middle, and the bottom third
>> trails below.
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