Determining a scroll based on code unit offsets

Mark Waddingham mark at livecode.com
Fri Mar 27 15:47:01 EDT 2020


Maybe (the formattedHeight of codeunit 1 to OFFSET of FIELD - the formattedHeight of codeunit OFFSET of FIELD)?

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> On 27 Mar 2020, at 17:59, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> In our last episode, our heroine was trapped by the selection of a line containing metadata. The heroes of this group saved her. In all cases, scrolling the field was accomplished by using the "select" command to bring the line into view.
> 
> Alas, escape from one danger has led to another. The field itself must be inside an enclosing group so that it will scroll smoothly on mobile. She needs to translate the data from codeunits to a scroll position in order to set the group's scroll rather than the field scroll.
> 
> Each line of the data looks something like this:
> 
> 1,103,7
> 
> While 7 is a line number, multiplying that by the textheight doesn't give consistent results due to line wrap. The first two items are codeunit offsets but there doesn't seem to be a way to translate those into pixel positions.
> 
> Our heroine is once again in distress, though as mentioned here, some of that may be due to the inability to reach the keyboard from 6 feet away, which presents its own positioning problems.
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