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I was asking me how it was possible to easily resize the breadth of columns in a script, by using a command like "set breadth of column X to 4000". As I din't find the solution, I wrote a small usefull palette to do it as easy as possible. In this special day, I am happy to offer the utility " Columna " to the community of the users of RR with the hope that it will help those who met the same problem. Any comment will be welcome.
Download at :
http://rg75.free.fr/hyperespace.columna.htm

Merry Christmas and new Year holidays in all.

Renaud



Je me demandais comment il était possible, à l'aide d'une commande telle que :" "set breadth of column X to 4000", de modifier aisément la largeur des colonnes. Comme je ne trouvais pas la réponse, j'ai écrit un petit utilitaire, sous la forme d'une palette, qui permet de réaliser cette tâche très facilement.
En ce jour de Noël, je suis heureux d'offrir l'utilitaire "Columna" à la communauté des utilisateurs de RR avec l'espoir qu'il rendra service à ceux qui se sont retrouvés devant le même problème.
Tout commentaire sera le bienvenu.
Téléchargement à :
http://rg75.free.fr/hyperespace.columna.htm

Joyeuses fêtes de fin d'année à tous.

Renaud

Sorry for the fault in the title. You will have corrected "Chritmas" by "Christmas".

Renaud

Hi Renaud,
if you want to set the width of a list field then you can set the tabstops property. It sets the width to the tabstop in points. You can pass a list of tabstops for individual width of columns. I hope this is what you are trying to do.
Regards
Bernd

Hi Bernd,

Thank you for your answer, and sorry because it seems that my first post wasn't very clear (or my english very bad... or both !).

In reality, I 'm not lookink for a solution to set the width of a liest field, but I purpose a small tool to easily resize the width of a single column, and without programming.

It should be useful to have a command like : "set the width of column 3 of field "MyAdress" to "200"". Maybe it is possible to do it with the newest version of RR, or with the Studio or pro version. But I work with the Media v2.9...

While waiting for, and to have an idea of what I purpose, just think to a palette :

1) in this palette, choose the name of a field from a pop-up menu,
2) choose the number of the column of this field that you want to resize,
3) just push one of the buttons to increase or decrease the size of the column.

In front of your amazed eyes the size of the column increase or decrease...

I've called this tool "Columna" ...ok ok, I know : it's not very original...

It's a Beta version but it seems to work fine until now. Of course I will be very happy to have reaction of users to make corrections if necessary.

Thanks again for your post

Regards,

renaud

bn wrote:Hi Renaud,
if you want to set the width of a list field then you can set the tabstops property. It sets the width to the tabstop in points. You can pass a list of tabstops for individual width of columns.

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 put the tabstops of field 1 into field 2

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set the tabstops of field 1 to "40,60,100,160,180"

I hope this is what you are trying to do.
Regards
Bernd