On 23/7/01 11:11 pm, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For MetaCard to be taken seriously as a competitor in the VB space, or
> anything related to databases, it needs some way to display multicolumn
> lists in which the columns can truncate display.
>
> Using a single field and truncating the text in a script will work, but its
> only really reliable if we use a monospaced font, and stepping through each
> line of each column to do the truncation in script on even a modest 3,000
> records is prohibitively slow.
Why not use multiple fields? This will automatically truncate and does give
acceptable performance in my experience. Store the data in a variable and
have one display routine that copies the variable into multiple fields - you
can call that any time you need to update the display.
Regards,
Kevin
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