FormattedHeight

[Terry Judd]

Could you use a browser instance instead of a field?

On 03/05/2020, 03:27, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    I think the solution has to be in the engine. I'm in trouble.

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    Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
    HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
    On May 2, 2020 2:27:53 AM scott--- via use-livecode 
    <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    > 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
    >>> Elementary Software
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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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    >>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
    >>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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    >> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
    >> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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