Re: Scrolling/keeping textArea down

[Admin <admin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried that before, the result is more or less the same. Can't say that 
scrollbar stays at top but it sure is far from bottom this way.

23.09.2025 22:07, Bruce Steers пишет:
> Maybe use insert (it's faster)..
>
> Response.Insert(s) ' cursor should be at end so no need to set Pos
> Response.EnsureVisible
>
> Respects
> BruceS
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Sept 2025, 15:48 Lee, <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     On 9/23/25 10:31 AM, Admin wrote:
>     >
>     [snip]>>>
>     >>> Response.Pos = MaximResponse.Length
>     >>> Response.EnsureVisible()
>     >>>
>     [snip]>>
>     >> How is the text being added to the TextArea?
>     >>
>     >>
>     > Well, to be precise, there's httpClient receiving JSON request
>     through sBuffer = Read #hClient, Lof(hClient), after that it
>     > JSON.decodes sBuffer into a string variable, and finally the
>     Response.Text &='s with this variable. Then there's Wait 0.1, so
>     > that all the interface is completely redrawn and we forget about
>     everything that was before that. Only then I do Pos =
>     > Response.Lenght, then EnsureVisible and already tried Refresh
>     and Wait 0 after that. Same result: the scrollbar appears
>     > somewhere is the middle of the textArea.
>     >
>     >
>     > So basically I would say, as far as I understand how Wait works,
>     that direct answer to your question is: the text is already there.
>
>     Well, no, it is not "already there". It is being added with the &=
>     operator from the results of reading the HttpClient stream.
>     But you did not say what triggers that Read. Is it accomplished in
>     the HttpClient_Read event?
>
>     Above you showed that you were setting Response.Pos with the value
>     of MaximResponse.Length. Just now you said you set .Pos from
>     Response.Length. If what you said first is accurate, perhaps
>     MaximResponse.Length does not contain a value appropriate to use
>     for Response.Pos.
>
>     Or, it may simply be that the TextArea.Length property does not
>     contain a value appropriate to use for TextArea.Pos.
>     https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.qt4/textarea/pos :
>     "As the text is stored in UTF-8, you must use the String class to
>     convert this position to the byte index in the string."
>
>     (I do not know of TextArea.Length takes UTF-8 characters into
>     account. Anyone?)
>
>     Have you tried NOT setting Response.Pos and simply let the
>     TextArea's text addition process handle that itself?
>
>
>     -- 
>     Lee
>
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