Livecode/iOS Find and Scroll To

Peter M. Brigham pmbrig at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 13:22:47 EDT 2012


On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Rick Harrison wrote:

> I want to find or search for a particular word in an
> iOS Scroller text field and to have the field
> jump/scroll immediately to that found word.
> 
> This is not looking to be as easy as it sounds.
> 
> Has anyone done this, or can you please point
> me to the correct direction on how to handle this?

Could you use
   the formattedheight of (char 1 to (word 4 of the foundchunk) of fld x) of fld x
and then scroll down that far?

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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