Y coordinate for a line of text

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The selectedLoc will give the loc in window coordinates, not the "local" Y coordinate within the field of interest, which is what I thought you wanted. I cannot imagine what value that would have, since it depends on where the stack window is currently placed.
Craig


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Thank you Craig and Paul. Your answers were what I was hoping for. Devin, it turned out that selectedLoc() was the easiest to implement. How did I not know about that function!
Thanks!

Scott Morrow

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> On Nov 12, 2019, at 8:46 AM, Devin Asay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> The selectedLoc function may also be helpful.
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>> On Nov 12, 2019, at 7:27 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> You may want to look at the Dictionary entry for "measureText"
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>> On 11/12/2019 1:43 AM, scott--- via use-livecode wrote:
>>> I’m needing to know the coordinate (Y is the tricky one) for a line of text. I’m not do a very good job at calculating it. I think I remember a newish LC command or function that achieved this but I can’t locate it in the dictionary. Am I imagining?
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