what is the property for the position of a scrolling field?

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 13:50:01 EDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Are you sure it is a standard scrolling field? Not a list field, for
> example? If it is a list field, perhaps the last line gets selected when
> the card opens. If it is a scrolling field, check the position of the text
> insertion point right after the card opens. Is it at the end of the text?
> Perhaps there is a script doing this.
>

It was indeed a scrolling list.

And the bizarre behavior has stopped.  The script doesn't seem to do it.


> It would be best to find the real cause, but if you can't find it, you can
> add a script to the card that selects before char 1 of the field or sets
> the scroll of the field.
>
> on openCard
>   select before char 1 of fld x // option 1
>   set the vScroll of fld x to 0 // option 2
> end openCard
>

vScroll is what I was looking for.  (Like so many things, so obvious once I
know the right word :)

Thank you



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