FormattedHeight

[scott at elementarysoftware.com]

I’ve run into that a few times but not recently. I couldn’t find anywhere that I had worked around it. All I can imagine trying is 
1. Swapping text in and out at some point (possibly just one giant stutter) or 
2. Changing the size of the text that is not visible during the scroll… though (the more I think about that one the more it seems like it would make the scroll wacky in other ways)  Neither seems super-promising but that’s all I can think of at the moment. If you find a solution, I would love to know what it is.
—
Scott


> On May 1, 2020, at 10:24 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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)
>> 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:
>>> 
>>> Is the formattedHeight of a group broken for anyone else? LC 9.6dp4 (and possibly dp3).
>>> 
>>> I'm a little frantic.
>>> 
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