Thanks guys. I did remember there was a limit but for some reason thought
it was only for the width of a line. I've switched over to trying a group
set as a container and setting the field itself to scrolling layermode. I
haven't tried it yet on mobile but we'll see.
@Richard, when developing for desktop you don't need the enclosing group,
but on mobile you do because acceleratedRendering only applies to groups.
Without it you can't achieve smooth scrolling. I wish we could just set a
field to scrolling layermode, it would sure make layout and resizing easier.
I think the new container layermode is supposed to help with this stuff. I
haven't had to use it until now.
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On April 5, 2020 9:15:24 AM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
> I have a field that reports a formattedheight of 125396. I want to
> extend it to full height for use inside an enclosing scrolling group.
I see that method used in the Lesson on using a scroller for text as
well, but I've never understood why. What is the advantage of putting
the field inside of a group rather than using the scroller with the
field directly?
> But when I try to set the height to the formattedHeight, I get an
> error: Value is not a number.
I think Paul has the answer there: groups have limit of 32,767px on
either axis. That's about 30' on desktop systems so generally useful,
but when using them to contain a field sized for long text it can easily
be exceeded.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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