scrollbars for a stack?

[Scott Morrow]

Is the user viewing a pdf or is it LiveCode controls (fields and such)? If it isn’t a pdf then they should be able to view things in any form since it hasn’t been rendered for the court yet.  Couldn’t it all be placed into a group, set the group to the rect of the stack, put scroll bars on the group and then the user can scroll through things at an easy to read size.  Put the text into a different format (out of view) when rendering to print as a pdf.  Or I may completely misunderstand the issue :- )

Scott Morrow

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> On Nov 4, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My application generates pdf full pages (it has to; the forms are specified
> by the courts, and the program is to prepare them)
> 
> 
> Some of the text can be small (remember, I can't change that!), so I have
> coded to use scaleFactor to allow zooming.  On even a 15" screen, this will
> rapidly create a stack taller than the screen.  In other cases, someone
> might simply want to zoom yet use less screenspace.
> 
> Currently, the rendering is done by placing the groups on card 1 of the
> output stack.  It would seem simpler to simply slap scrollbars onto the
> stack, and let the user scroll when desired--but this doesn't seem to be a
> supported feature of livecode, unless I've missed something.
> 
> The cleanest (least dirty?) way I see to achieve this at the moment is to
> create yet another group containing all of my display groups, and resize
> that group each time the window resizes.
> 
> Or is there a better way?
> -- 
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> (702) 508-8462
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