I wish, but no. I need to highlight selections in different colors, overlay controls, format text, extract text, and other things that are easy in fields but hard in a browser.

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On May 2, 2020 7:31:36 PM Terry Judd via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

Could you use a browser instance instead of a field?

On 03/05/2020, 03:27, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

   I think the solution has to be in the engine. I'm in trouble.

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   On May 2, 2020 2:27:53 AM scott--- via use-livecode
   <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

   > I’ve run into that a few times but not recently. I couldn’t find anywhere
   > that I had worked around it. All I can imagine trying is
> 1. Swapping text in and out at some point (possibly just one giant stutter) or
   > 2. Changing the size of the text that is not visible during the scroll…
   > though (the more I think about that one the more it seems like it would
   > make the scroll wacky in other ways)  Neither seems super-promising but
   > that’s all I can think of at the moment. If you find a solution, I would
   > love to know what it is.
   > —
   > Scott
   >
   >
   >> On May 1, 2020, at 10:24 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
   >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
   >>
   >> Yes, that seems to be the problem. I have a long text field that exceeds
   >> the maximum. There's an enclosing group to be compatible with
   >> acceleratedRendering on mobile. The same setup is used for all the
   >> field/group combinations in the stack and they all work except this one,
   >> but the others are all shorter.
   >>
   >> I set the inner field to its full formattedHeight inside the group, which
   >> is shorter. The group has a behavior that scrolls the content.
   >>
   >> I discovered today that if I set the behavior on the field instead of its
   >> enclosing group, I can make it scroll. But acceleratedRendering on a field
   >> is jerky and doesn't work very well on mobile. I can't break up the text,
   >> it has to be all one block. I have tried setting the group to container
   >> layermode without success.
   >>
   >> If you're wondering why the text exceeds the maximum, this is for a mobile
   >> app and there is not only a lot of heavy formatting with large headings 
and
   >> spaceBelow, but the text size is largish so that it is readable on a tiny
   >> phone. That makes the pixel count pretty high.
   >>
   >> I only have a very short time left to solve this.
   >>
   >> On 5/1/20 4:45 PM, scott--- via use-livecode wrote:
   >>> Are you exceeding the maximum vertical scroll?
   >>> (I haven’t run into this recently but I believe at one point the vScroll 
of
   >>> groups was limited at the engine level to 32780)
   >>> Scott Morrow
   >>> Elementary Software
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   >>>> On May 1, 2020, at 1:17 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
   >>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
   >>>>
   >>>> Is the formattedHeight of a group broken for anyone else? LC 9.6dp4 (and
   >>>> possibly dp3).
   >>>>
   >>>> I'm a little frantic.
   >>>>
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