> On 20 May 2017, at 20:02, Quincey Morris wrote: > >> I had a text field within a tab view item whose text was getting too large. > > Too large, as in: there are multiple lines of text whose total vertical > height exceeds the height of the text field?
Yes > So I embedded it in a scroll view. No matter what I tried in the xib editor, > I couldn't get the scrolling to work. > > Well, no, of course not. A text field is a control, so you put the control in > a scroll view. The control itself isn’t bigger than the height available, > just the text within the control. Since the scroll bar acts on the control, > it doesn’t scroll the text. So to make this work I would have to set the height of the text field equal to the height of the text every time I change the stringValue? Sounds like I need a text view instead to display a long non-editable text. Jan E. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
