Maybe (the formattedHeight of codeunit 1 to OFFSET of FIELD - the formattedHeight of codeunit OFFSET of FIELD)?
Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Mar 2020, at 17:59, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > In our last episode, our heroine was trapped by the selection of a line > containing metadata. The heroes of this group saved her. In all cases, > scrolling the field was accomplished by using the "select" command to bring > the line into view. > > Alas, escape from one danger has led to another. The field itself must be > inside an enclosing group so that it will scroll smoothly on mobile. She > needs to translate the data from codeunits to a scroll position in order to > set the group's scroll rather than the field scroll. > > Each line of the data looks something like this: > > 1,103,7 > > While 7 is a line number, multiplying that by the textheight doesn't give > consistent results due to line wrap. The first two items are codeunit offsets > but there doesn't seem to be a way to translate those into pixel positions. > > Our heroine is once again in distress, though as mentioned here, some of that > may be due to the inability to reach the keyboard from 6 feet away, which > presents its own positioning problems. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
