Hi Nicolas, Does the number of lines increase or decrease between executions?
Have you tried to add or subtract a constant to adjust for the difference? Rick > On Mar 5, 2017, at 9:45 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Provided both fields have the same number of lines... > > > I should've added that the fields do not contain the same number of > lines. They are identical, though, in size and text properties. > > Thanks, Paul. > > -- > Nicolas Cueto > > > On 6 March 2017 at 11:26, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> I have a stack that does a similar thing, but with numbers and I just use >> the following script in the main field; >> >> on scrollBarDrag pScroll >> set the vScroll of fld “lineNumbers" to pScroll >> >> end scrollBarDrag >> >> Provided both fields have the same number of lines and the text properties >> are identical they should stay aligned correctly. >> >> Or a simpler version would be; >> set the vScroll of fld 2 to the vScroll of fld 1 >> >> Paul >> >> >> >>> On Mar 5, 2017, at 6:00 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi. >>> >>> The part I've got working... >>> >>> Two clickable scrolling fields (fld1, fld2), same height and width. >> Click a >>> fld1 line and fld2 SCROLLs and HILITEDLINEs to visually reveal a matching >>> line. (fld1 is French text, fld2 is an English gloss.) >>> >>> The part I would welcome your help with... >>> >>> If, say, the hilited line on fld1 is kinda halfway down, how do I get the >>> hilited line on fld2 to also be kinda halfway down? >>> >>> Here's my scrolling-magic script: >>> >>> set the scroll of fld2 to (tMatchingLineNr - 1) * \ >>> the textHeight of fld2 - the textHeight of fld2 >>> set the hilitedline of fld2 to tMatchingLineNr >>> >>> Of course, this ends up with the hilited line of fld2 being at the top. >>> How do I get it to scroll just that little bit more so that it aligns >> with >>> the hilited line as seen in fld1? >>> >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> -- >>> Nicolas Cueto >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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