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Is there a better way to do the following with strings....

I am concatenating the string because it acts as a terminal, like tera term or putty.  And I force it to scroll as far to the bottom as possible.  I don't see anything necessarily wrong with this solution, but I wonder if there's a more elegant way.  Like... a right click setting change in the string indicator.

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I'm going to comment that (per the detailed help) setting that property to a negative number will set the scroll position to the bottom.  But other than that, that's what I do.  But I hope someone else has a more elegant solution.

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I will chime in and also admit that is how I code it up as well.

I did not know about the -1 trick. Thanks for the tip. 👍

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I didn't know that about the (-1) trick either.  Guess I should read the detailed help for all properties and not just some...

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@billko wrote:

I'm going to comment that (per the detailed help) setting that property to a negative number will set the scroll position to the bottom.  But other than that, that's what I do.  But I hope someone else has a more elegant solution.


So I guess this actually gets into a debate of what is elegant.  The input is an unsigned 32 bit.  So sure, a -1 for a signed 32 bit gives you exactly what I have unsigned.  So the question of elegance becomes - do we like coercion dots, or do we like big fat numbers?

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@billko wrote:

I'm going to comment that (per the detailed help) setting that property to a negative number will set the scroll position to the bottom.  But other than that, that's what I do.  But I hope someone else has a more elegant solution.


So I guess this actually gets into a debate of what is elegant.  The input is an unsigned 32 bit.  So sure, a -1 for a signed 32 bit gives you exactly what I have unsigned.  So the question of elegance becomes - do we like coercion dots, or do we like big fat numbers?


Ha! Good point.

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