Re: Mouse messages in scrollers

2020-09-20 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
Ack! I replied without fully grokking what you wrote. I will revisit this and look at storing them on mouseDown. Thank you! — Scott > On Sep 20, 2020, at 7:00 PM, scott--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > Unfortunately, I did not make any further progress on this one. Stumped. > > -- > Scott Mo

formattedHeight formattedWidth on android

2020-09-20 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
I’ve recently run into what feels like a bug with formattedWidth and formattedHeight of a field in android. I’m attempting to maximize (without clipping) the textSize of a string in a fixed-size field. I have code that works reliably in the IDE and on iOS but not on android. My use case seems to

Re: Mouse messages in scrollers

2020-09-20 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
Unfortunately, I did not make any further progress on this one. Stumped. -- Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web https://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com booth1-360-734-4701 ---

Re: HOw to get htmltext from the field to display in another field

2020-09-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/20/20 3:20 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 9/20/20 1:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: As an aside, I first thought that this would work:    if the htmltext of field "mainText" <> the text of field "mainText" then -- plain text is in the field which does return "

Re: HOw to get htmltext from the field to display in another field

2020-09-20 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 9/20/20 1:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: As an aside, I first thought that this would work:   if the htmltext of field "mainText" <> the text of field "mainText" then -- plain text is in the field which does return "false" correctly. But when I set the text of the field t

Re: Mouse messages in scrollers

2020-09-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Scott, did you ever figure this out? When are you capturing the mouse locations? If I remember right, they are accurate if you store them on mouseDown. I meant to reply sooner but the email got lost in a barrage for a while. On 9/15/20 8:30 PM, scott--- via use-livecode wrote: on mobile (just

Re: HOw to get htmltext from the field to display in another field

2020-09-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/20/20 10:55 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 9/20/20 7:28 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Eureka! So easy, now to get back to the htmlText as per the code if the htmlText of field "mainText"  then    put the htmlText of field "mainText" into field "main

Re: HOw to get htmltext from the field to display in another field

2020-09-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/20/20 9:28 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Eureka! So easy, now to get back to the htmlText as per the code if the htmlText of field "mainText" then put the htmlText of field "mainText" into field "mainText" else set the htmlText of field "mainText"

Re: HOw to get htmltext from the field to display in another field

2020-09-20 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 9/20/20 7:28 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Eureka! So easy, now to get back to the htmlText as per the code if the htmlText of field "mainText" then put the htmlText of field "mainText" into field "mainText" else set the htmlText of field "mainText"

Re: HOw to get htmltext from the field to display in another field

2020-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Eureka! So easy, now to get back to the htmlText as per the code if the htmlText of field "mainText" then put the htmlText of field "mainText" into field "mainText" else set the htmlText of field "mainText" to field "mainText" end if we wonder how easy it to tell that "if" the c