Scroll position/moveTo() issue

Hi there.

I am trying to design a “teminal-style” pane which displays incoming data from a serial port, using a StyleTextArea object.

New text is appended onto the end of the StyleTextArea object and removed from the beginning, to keep the total number of characters in the view the same.

I want the user to be able to scroll to say, halfway, and have the text he/she sees remain constant. Keeping the current view constant is easy if I had a way of finding what value moveTo() would result in the current view, as I can count how many characters have been removed, and then call moveTo() again with newValue = oldValue - numCharsRemoved.

If there any way to achieve this functionality? I was able to do it with a normal TextFlow node using the scrollY value (when it was wrapped in a ScrollPane), but since I read that getEstimatedScrollY() on a VirtualizedScrollPane does not work correctly if their are font size changes or wrapped lines, I’m not sure if I can rely on this.

[JordanMartinez]

It sounds somewhat similar to #385.

[JordanMartinez]

Closing as this should be resolved for the most part by #418.