The answer to life may be 42, but my question is: "6?" The setup: I create a new scrolling field, fill it with a bunch of text, and drag the scrollbar all the way down, setting the field to its max vertical scroll. When I compare the formattedHeight of the field minus its physical height with the current vscroll of the field, I get a difference of 6. The vscroll of the field is consistently 6 pixels less. Where does this value come from?
No changes to margins, border, textHeight, or other visual properties seems to have any bearing on this difference. Oddities like these make it difficult to reliably interact with LC controls. Even more odd: if I disable the vertical scrollbar, and set the vscroll of the field to its max via script, then the difference becomes 5. WTF? Anyone know the source of these mysterious numbers? I guess I'm going to create a LiveCode property called "fudgeFactor" to account to account for these inconsistencies: ask "What is the answer to life?" if it is not 42 then set the fudgeFactor of field "myScrollingField" to 6 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design _______________________________________________ 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
