Using the Find command in IOS

[Howard Bornstein]

I have filed a bug report
(*10978<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10978>
*) about this issue.


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the response. That would be great but my testing does not
> support this. When I do a find of a field within a scroller group, the Find
> works, in that it finds the text and draws a box around it, but the field
> itself doesn't scroll (or at least it doesn't change the vscroll value of
> the field).
>
> I test the vscroll of the field after the Find and it is always zero. It
> does work as expected on the desktop but doesn't seem to actually scroll
> the field in the IOS environment.
>
> Do you have any idea why I am getting this result?
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:41 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On 6/15/13 4:22 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
>>
>>> The dictionary shows that the Find command is supported in IOS, but I
>>> can't
>>> seem to make it work as described.
>>>
>>> I want to "find" a string in a scrolling field and have the field scroll
>>> automatically to that string. It works fine on the desktop but doesn't
>>> scroll to the found line in the IOS field (although it *does* draw a box
>>>
>>> around the string, which I don't actually care about).
>>>
>>> I'm not doing anything with the vscroll property of the scrolling group
>>> the
>>> field is in, but as far as I can tell, I shouldn't have to.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get Find to just scroll to the found string in an IOS
>>> text field? Is there more that is needed beside simply using the Find
>>> command?
>>>
>>>
>> The field itself will scroll but that's all, you'll have to manage the
>> group scroll yourself. If you're using a native iOS scroller you'll need to
>> adjust that too. Probably the best way would be to note the starting scroll
>> of the field before the find command, calculate the difference afterward,
>> and then adjust the group and iOS scroller to the same amount.
>>
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>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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>
>
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>
> Howard Bornstein
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