There’s the formattedStyledText property which is like the formattedText but in the form of a style array. If you sum the number of chars in each run up until you find your tag, then you can should be able to use the formattedheight of char 1 up to the summed index to get the vscroll you need.
Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Feb 2020, at 22:50, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Thanks, I'll save that for someday. In this case though, the text is wrapped > and there are anchors scattered around inside paragraphs. Unless someone else > has an idea it looks like I'm going to have to extract lookup tables. That's > going to be quite a job. > >> On 2/17/20 3:59 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> J. Landman Gay wrote: >>> I'm still working on htmltext in a field. There are anchors that indicate >>> positions elsewhere in the file. A browser will automatically find and >>> scroll to the right place in the text. I need to reproduce that. >>> >>> Is there a way to translate an anchor like "#12345" to the location in the >>> visible field text it links to? >>> >>> I've thought of a couple of alternate ways to do it involving lookup files, >>> but it would be better to do a direct translation to avoid the extra >>> overhead. >> The closest I have doesn't account for softwraps, but FWIW: >> function fwAnchorTagLine pFldObj, pTag >> local tA >> local tLastLine >> local tNumRuns >> put the styledText of pFldObj into tA >> put item 2 of extents(tA) into tLastLine >> repeat with i = 1 to tLastLine >> put item 2 of extents(tA[i]["runs"]) into tNumRuns >> repeat with j = 1 to tNumRuns >> if pTag is in tA[i]["runs"][j]["style"]["linkText"] \ >> AND "link" is not in \ >> tA[i]["runs"][j]["style"]["textStyle"] then >> return i >> end if >> end repeat >> end repeat >> end fwAnchorTagLine > > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
