Hilite pattern in list field doesn't scroll correctly

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Aug 11 18:32:46 EDT 2012


J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 8/11/12 12:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>
>>  > I have a carefully sized gradient image that I use as a custom
>>  > hilite pattern in a list field. It is exactly the height of the
>>  > textheight. When the field is not scrolled it lines up perfectly
>>  > with any selected line of the field.
>>  >
>>  > But if the scrollbar is dragged and stopped in between even
>>  > lineheight increments, the pattern tiles in a very ugly way.
>>  > It looks like the engine is just tiling the pattern all the way
>>  > down the field and whatever line is currently selected just
>>  > makes that area of the tiled image show through.
>>
>> I filed a feature request for this last year:
>>
>> Could hilitePattern in list fields account for scroll?
>> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9759>
>
> Thanks, I added my comment. I'd like to see it changed to a bug, since
> the feature is already implemented but doesn't work as expected.

Done.

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