[ANN] Release 12 of the MasterLibrary is available

[Michael Doub]

I just pulled this back for more testing.   I found a bug in the data 
generator that was not inserting the spaceabove and below properly... I 
deserves more testing.

Sorry folks.   A bit red faced here.

-= Mike


On 11/21/14 12:18 PM, Michael Doub wrote:
> For the folks that we paying attention to the discussion about how to 
> position the scroll to a particular line in a field, this might be of 
> interest to you.   I think I cracked the nut on how to figure out the 
> scroll position for any character within a field.  This includes 
> getting the scroll for a character in a wrapped line. It also 
> addresses spacebefore, spaceafter, firstindent, leftindent and 
> rightIndent.   I have done a fair amount of testing trying to catch 
> the corner cases, but if you do find any issues please let me know. 
> This was done with LC 6.6.4.
>
> -= Mike
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wpwn3hfbmpl7sk/MasterLibrary.livecode?dl=0
>
> Release 12
> *    Added __positionCharInFld, adjusts the scroll of a field to have 
> the designated character be at the top,
>      center or bottom of the field.
> *    Added __SoftLineBreaks, returns information about how the text 
> within a field has been soft wrapped.
>
> Both of these functions were a bit challenging, please let me know if 
> you discover any issues.
>
> *    Added __DummyTextData, this generates data to go into a field 
> with all of the different sizing
>      conditions.  This generated the data that I used to test the 
> functions above.