FormattedHeight

[J. Landman Gay]

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
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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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