If I understand what you¹re asking, I believe you can use the formattedRect for this.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 11/18/14, 10:23 AM, "Michael Doub" <[email protected]> wrote: >A related question to positioning a line within a field, is positioning >a chunk within a line that is wrapped. I am stumped on this one and it >may need engine support. I don't know how to figure out the scroll >value of something in the middle of a wrapped line. In the thread >discussing scroll positioning within a wrapped field we see how to find >the top. I figured out how to get the bottom using James Hales >approach. (code in the forum and MasterLibrary) > >Does anyone see a way to calculate the scroll position of a chunk within >a line that is wrapped? > >Regards > Mike > > > >On 11/18/14 1:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Michael Doub wrote: >> >> > I don't think the solution works because of a bug in livecode where >> > spacebefore and spaceafter are not taken into account. >> >> Thanks - I wasn't aware of that bug, but was able to find it: >> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11688> >> >> Hopefully it'll get addressed for 6.7.1 and 7.0.1, since it's needed >> for a wide range of tasks relating to text metrics. >> > > >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >[email protected] >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
