Scrolling back to a selected Text in a field

[xoomaster]

Hi,

Is there a way to scroll a field ( not the active window) down to a specific location, or to a highlighted section of a note in that field by script ? I am using both Mac/PC FMP 9.03.

Thank you in advance.

[normanicus]

You could check out this thread from the FMPro digest list:

http://www.listsearch.com/FileMaker/Thread/index.lasso?41683

From where I discovered that there is now this function:

Get(ActiveSelectionStart)

which you can check out in the FM help,

There is also a method here:

http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demos3.html

under the heading: Scripting the insertion of coloured/formatted text.

This works in FM6 but not FM9 but the idea is to insert a character that one would not normally find in text at the current cursor position and work with that,

Norman

[comment]

In theory, the Set Selection[] step should also cause the selected data to scroll into view. In practice, it needs a little help from a friend, as discovered here:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/190504/

BTW, Get(ActiveSelectionStart) has been available since version 7.

[xoomaster]

thank you for your help, I will look into your suggestions.

Xoomaster

[xoomaster]

Unfortunately none of the above actually worked !

I have also tried to use the Find/Replace script step, but it does not seem to work at all. Any suggestions ? I am using FMP AdV 9.03 on Mac.

[comment]

Does this work for you?

ScrollToSelection.fp7.zip

[xoomaster]

Thank, Yes it works.

I had tried many tricks but none was effective.

I still wonder why the script step Fine/Replace does not work on Mac 9.03 , if the "Use Dialog" is turn to off ?

Thank you for your help.