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I am using set the backgroundcolor of char X to Y of fld "Z" to "color" to highlight text in a field. But if I add metadata to the text, then the background color has "gaps" in it - lines one pixel wide where the new background color is not set. This happens whether you use htmltext in the field and...

Thank you Klaus, for the technical info as well as the etiquette info. My apologies for being brusque. I've been coding for 40 years, but am entirely new to livecode. It's been a long time since I joined a new forum, and I'd forgotten my manners. :-) I know about the "visible" property, but didn't k...

Thank you. But I want to know WHICH lines are visible. Your code tells me how many lines can be seen in the viewport, but not which lines. I want to know that lines 3 to 5 are visible or that line 7 is visible. The dgVisibleLines property of a datagrid gives you this information. It returns a comma ...

Do fields in livecode have any way to tell which lines are visible in the viewport? Like the dgVisibleLines property for a datagrid.

I mean lines here as the livecode chunk objects, text separated by a return. "Lines" as in 'the number of lines in fld "X"'.