Re: Height of a group is limited to 32767 (Int16)?

2016-11-13 Thread hlowe
Thanks Monte. I am curious as to why the height of LC groups are still limited to Int16? Henry -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Height-of-a-group-is-limited-to-32767-Int16-tp4710267p4710273.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archiv

Re: Height of a group is limited to 32767 (Int16)?

2016-11-13 Thread Monte Goulding
It is not an issue for the data grid itself it is an issue for the DataGrid + mergDataGridScroller. I wrote mergDataGridScroller with the goal of smooth scrolling relatively short DataGrids. If you want to use scrolling layer mode on a group then you really need to avoid fiddling with the group

Re: Height of a group is limited to 32767 (Int16)?

2016-11-13 Thread hlowe
Thanks. I see that you reported the problem in January 2016, that it was confirmed, but it is (apparently) unresolved. Is this a bug or a fundamental limitation of the LC engine? Can it be fixed without a major rewrite? It is a major limitation when trying to use a data grid + native scroller to cr

Re: selectedText

2016-11-13 Thread Richmond
Possibly, just possibly, this should be disregarded as numToCodePoint(4000) yields a Bengali character that behave is the way I described; but if one tries to insert numToCodePoint(93) or numToCodePoint(2356) everything works as previously. As one of my godfathers (a Bengali) would say "Bengali

selectedText

2016-11-13 Thread Richmond
Does anyone have any idea why when in Livecode 6.x if one has this: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(4000) end mouseUp it inserts the character between the chars where the insertion point is inwith a field, but in Livecode 8.1.1