Tobi,
Thanks for your response. I have a form with one datasource and twenty two datacontrols within that datasource. They are used to display name, address, city, state and other data that fits together logically on one form. Now if I implement your solution I need to apply it to all of the datacontrols on the form that display text. Can I use a For each loop, with a test for type = datacontrol, to set the text position to 0? If that will not work do I have to set each datacontrol explicitly? Should I put the loop code in the datasource_Change event? Regards, Marty <A DataControl can take the form of one of TextBox, DateBox, ComboBox, TextArea and ButtonBox, AFAICS. It's more difficult to find a general solution, so I'll <restrict myself to the case that you are displaying an Integer, Long, Float or String (with less than 256 characters) field which are precisely the cases where the <DataControl uses a TextBox to display the field. < <Then you get that internal TextBox via DataControl.Control. You just take this TextBox and go to cursor position zero: < < Dim hTextBox As TextBox = myDataControl.Control < < hTextBox.Pos = 0 < <This shows the left characters of the TextBox [ I have verified that it works out like this, on my system ]. The other cases may be similar, except DateBox which <has no Pos property. < <If you have a DataSource -> DataBrowser -> DataControl in your project, the appropriate place to put the above code would be the DataSource_Change event <handler. < <[ Also note that this is not about text alignment which you can control < separately with a TextBox but simply about what part of the long text < is displayed by the limited control. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
