Multiline, word-wrapped text in table cell?
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:22 pm
I am trying to learn to create, display, (and then print) a report. I can select a record from a database and send the record's text to a field in another stack. By sending the info tab delimited I can put grid lines around it (...thanks to runrev's online lessons 
) Some of the displayed text, however, is pretty long. Displayed in a single line, it just scrolls past the edge of the card. I am wondering if it's possible for me to display these fields in multi-line, word-wrapped cells.
Here's the code from the preOpenCard handler of my report form/card. (Tab delimited text is sent to the card elsewhere.):
Thanks! -- Al C.
) Some of the displayed text, however, is pretty long. Displayed in a single line, it just scrolls past the edge of the card. I am wondering if it's possible for me to display these fields in multi-line, word-wrapped cells. Here's the code from the preOpenCard handler of my report form/card. (Tab delimited text is sent to the card elsewhere.):
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--To create the grid set the hGrid and vGrid properties of the lines of the field which make up the table.
set the hGrid of line 2 to -2 of field "FieldNote" to true
set the vGrid of line 2 to -2 of field "FieldNote" to true
--first column narrower than second column
set the tabWidths of line 2 to -2 of field "FieldNote" to 130,300,0
--add some spacing between the text paragraphs and the table.
set the spaceBelow of line 1 of field "FieldNote" to 10
set the spaceAbove of line -1 of field "FieldNote" to 10
--To add a border to the table as a whole we set the borderWidth of all the lines in
--the table. When in hGrid mode, borders of adjacent lines which have compatible
--properties are elided into a 1-pixel grid line.
set the borderWidth of line 2 to -2 of field "FieldNote" to 2