FormattedHeight

[scott at elementarysoftware.com]

What about having two fields with a small amount of overlapping (same) text and as the first field reaches the end of its scroll, the second field could be displayed and begin its scroll… 
—Scott


> On May 2, 2020, at 10:25 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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