Scrollabe Btext?

[perrce]

I have a BText object that contains text that overfills the dimensions of the object. Is there a property in Bananas that I'm missing that places the pageup/pagedown highlights and vertically scrolls the text when pageup/pagedown keypresses are received?

[apps-tv]

There is no built in way to do this with BText.

You pretty much have to roll your own.

One of the easiest ways to do this is to use a BList, basically you call View.layoutText() to split the text into lines based on the width of the view, then shove each line into a BList row.

the other way is to still use a BText but handle the scrolling and highlights yourself.

[perrce]

That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the help.

[apps-tv]

Here's an old thread where F8ster posted some code

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=303332

[s2kdave]

In bananas plus I made a BScrollPanePlus which does exactly this. It only does the overfill up/down though, not left/right. You can assemble any set of views inside it as child views and it scrolls them all.