Find Scroll position of a chunk within a line that is wrapped

[Michael Doub]

I think that you are correct!   That was the lead that I was missing.

Thanks!
   Mike

On 11/18/14 2:04 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> If I understand what you¹re asking, I believe you can use the
> formattedRect for this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
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> On 11/18/14, 10:23 AM, "Michael Doub" <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A related question to positioning a line within a field, is positioning
>> a chunk within a line that is wrapped.   I am stumped on this one and it
>> may need engine support.   I don't know how to figure out the scroll
>> value of something in the middle of a wrapped line.   In the thread
>> discussing scroll positioning within a wrapped field we see how to find
>> the top.   I figured out how to get the bottom using James Hales
>> approach. (code in the forum and MasterLibrary)
>>
>> Does anyone see a way to calculate the scroll position of a chunk within
>> a line that is wrapped?
>>
>> Regards
>>    Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/18/14 1:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> Michael Doub wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think the solution works because of a bug in livecode where
>>>> spacebefore and spaceafter are not taken into account.
>>> Thanks - I wasn't aware of that bug, but was able to find it:
>>> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11688>
>>>
>>> Hopefully it'll get addressed for 6.7.1 and 7.0.1, since it's needed
>>> for a wide range of tasks relating to text metrics.
>>>
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