the max scroll of a fld

[jmburnod]

Hi All,

I need the max scroll of a fld.
This script work on my mac but there is maybe a more elegant and safe way

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function MaxScroll pFld
   set the scroll of fld pFld to 100000
   return the scroll of fld pFld
end MaxScroll

Regards

Jean-Marc

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Do you mean you need something like:

get the number of lines of fld "myField" * the textheight of fld "myField"?

or:

get the number of lines of fld "myField" * the textSize of fld "myField"?

Craig Newman

[FourthWorld]

If the field's fixedLineHeight is false you may want to use the formattedHeight of the field, which will account for any variances in the textHeight of lines within the field.

That assumes the goal is to obtain a number to be used for other purposes; if the goal is just to make sure the field is scrolled to show the bottom-most line of text you can use some unusually large number for the scroll and it'll stop at the bottom of the available text:

set the scroll of fld "MyField" to 999999

[jmburnod]

Hi Craig and Richard

Thanks for reply

Craig. I can't use the num of lines because the field is not a fld list and is wrapped

Richard. You're right
Damned ! I forgot the formattedheight function

Best

Jean-Marc

[jmburnod]

Hi,

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function MaxScroll pFld
   set the scroll of fld pFld to 100000
   put (the scroll of fld pFld) into theMaxS
   return theMaxS
end MaxScroll

return 3058

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function MaxScrollbyFH pFld
   put the num of chars of fld pFld into nb
   put the formattedHeight of char 1 to nb of fld pFld into pF
   return pf
end MaxScrollbyFH

return 3600

[FourthWorld]

Damned ! I forgot the formattedheight function

That's why C has only 27 keywords: it makes it easy to learn.