fxruby users - Sep 2008 - TEXT_AUTOSCROLL in FXText with usage of FXDataTarget

Hello,

I have a FXTextfield connected with a FXDataTarget. My FxTextField is
a logging window, so  I always would like to see the last line
visible. I initialized the FXText with FXText::TEXT_AUTOSCROLL, but, I
dont know why, the last line is no keep visible, although I can see
the updates of the TextField through the FXDataTarget. Currently I
switch to a manually assignment of the text and call
"makePositionVisible", but is this the right solution?

As far as I understand the TEXT_AUTOSCROLL should always scroll to the end?

Thx,

Thilko

On Thursday 11 September 2008, Thilko Richter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a FXTextfield connected with a FXDataTarget. My FxTextField is
> a logging window, so  I always would like to see the last line
> visible. I initialized the FXText with FXText::TEXT_AUTOSCROLL, but, I
> dont know why, the last line is no keep visible, although I can see
> the updates of the TextField through the FXDataTarget. Currently I
> switch to a manually assignment of the text and call
> "makePositionVisible", but is this the right solution?
> 
> As far as I understand the TEXT_AUTOSCROLL should always scroll to the end?
Actually, TEXT_AUTOSCROLL isn''t implemented ;-)

Its not common to connect FXText via FXDataTarget, on account of the amount of
data that may be transferred, and the huge cost of updating text metrics non-
incrementally.

My suggestion is to append text piecemeal fashion:



    text->appendText(string);
    text->makePositionVisible(text->getLength());

This will incrementally update and scroll to the last character position.

If you''re adding a LOT of text, you may want to:


    excess=text->getNumRows()-maximum_number_of_rows;
    if(0<excess) text->removeText(0,text->countRows(0,excess));

Which will trim from the top of the widget, to keep the number of
lines less than maximum_number_of_rows.


Hope this helps,


		 - Jeroen