FormattedHeight

[J. Landman Gay]

Yes, that seems to be the problem. I have a long text field that exceeds the maximum. There's 
an enclosing group to be compatible with acceleratedRendering on mobile. The same setup is used 
for all the field/group combinations in the stack and they all work except this one, but the 
others are all shorter.

I set the inner field to its full formattedHeight inside the group, which is shorter. The group 
has a behavior that scrolls the content.

I discovered today that if I set the behavior on the field instead of its enclosing group, I 
can make it scroll. But acceleratedRendering on a field is jerky and doesn't work very well on 
mobile. I can't break up the text, it has to be all one block. I have tried setting the group 
to container layermode without success.

If you're wondering why the text exceeds the maximum, this is for a mobile app and there is not 
only a lot of heavy formatting with large headings and spaceBelow, but the text size is largish 
so that it is readable on a tiny phone. That makes the pixel count pretty high.

I only have a very short time left to solve this.

On 5/1/20 4:45 PM, scott--- via use-livecode wrote:
> Are you exceeding the maximum vertical scroll?
> (I haven’t run into this recently but I believe at one point the vScroll of groups was limited at the engine level to 32780)
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> Scott Morrow
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>> On May 1, 2020, at 1:17 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Is the formattedHeight of a group broken for anyone else? LC 9.6dp4 (and possibly dp3).
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>> I'm a little frantic.
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