Hi, everyone, I am trying to mimick the phonebook and text scroll behaviour of a cell phone. It�s fun! I am at a loss solving this one, though: If for example the name and the number is too long for one line (and it almost always will be) my cellular (an Ericsson) won�t just make a line break like every computer you could imagine. Instead it shows as many characters as fits in one line, then waits, then shows the rest (I think they call this behaviour "panning" or "toddle", if that makes things clearer) or as many of the rest that fit. This behaviour is what I want to mimick in Director.
I am using a common field member, not a scrolling field but one with "fixed size" and "no wrap". The text string is generated from a property list phonebook which looks like [#index:[#name:"Guys Name", #pnumber:nnnnnnnn]] **Is there any way for Lingo to see what characters aren�t visible, that is, those who are clipped by the fixed size field? Or to see only those that are visible? **If it is so, is there a way of "panning" them, that is, scrolling the text horisontally? Making the vertical scroll isn�t that hard (scrollTop a.s.o), it�s the horisontal one that bugs me. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
