>
> What if we had a function which takes some tab- and column-delimited data
> and a set of tabstops, and returns the truncated text? Maybe something
> like:
>
> put TruncateColumns( <data>, <tabstops) into fld 1
>
> This would reduce Raney's work significantly over making a whole
> new object
> type, and would take care of the most critical bottleneck in
> doing database
> work in MC.
>
> Whaddya' think?
>
Wouldn't it be better to use a property of the fld:
set the tableText of fld X to <data>
This would use the current tabstops and font metrics.
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