Re: scrolling woes
Re: scrolling woes
- Subject: Re: scrolling woes
- From: "J.E. Schotsman" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 20:56:26 +0200
> On 20 May 2017, at 20:02, Quincey Morris wrote:
>
>> I had a text field within a tab view item whose text was getting too large.
>
> Too large, as in: there are multiple lines of text whose total vertical height exceeds the height of the text field?
Yes
> So I embedded it in a scroll view. No matter what I tried in the xib editor, I couldn't get the scrolling to work.
>
> Well, no, of course not. A text field is a control, so you put the control in a scroll view. The control itself isn’t bigger than the height available, just the text within the control. Since the scroll bar acts on the control, it doesn’t scroll the text.
So to make this work I would have to set the height of the text field equal to the height of the text every time I change the stringValue? Sounds like I need a text view instead to display a long non-editable text.
Jan E.
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