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Newbie here... This thread helped me solve a scrolling problem, but I found a tweak that makes this a little simpler. You can use the textHeightSum property of a field to determine its height/size, then just subtract from that to set the scroll position where you want. So no tracking or calculation ...

Bernd,
Vielen Dank! That works, however, this terminates too soon. I also need to find a way to run a slow process in the shell, and show the ongoing updates over time. Is there a way to pipe the output of a shell into a LC field, showing updates as they happen?

addendum: I just discovered that you can open a terminal with: launch "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app" However, the launch command does not allow an argument, for Terminal to run. Launch only allows the name of a doc to open, but that does not work as I want to pass in a command to run IN the ...

Hi, total LiveCode beginner here, trying to figure out how to show a Terminal, called from LC. I'm on a mac. The application I am writing must call an external application that shows the status of a connected device (MIDI). The problem is that when I run the LC shell command, I can only get the imme...

Good timing, I'm on a similar quest. Have been muscling through use of midi in a Python app I'm writing for OSX, and since I'm also learning LiveCode, decided to search for a midi capability, sice LiveCode development is faster than Python. It appears you have to link in an extension to get midi, bu...