Here is a small problem I'm having with text *collisions*. I have a field who's contents are the names, dates and sizes of all the files in a directory. The items are separated by a set of tabs, which can me adjusted left or right via a widget at the top of the field. So imagine sliding this widget and seeing the filenames stationary on the left but the filesize and date are in motion on the right. The are moving because the distance (via tab length) is being adjusted to increase the space between these items.
My problem is that if I adjust the tabs too far to the left the size column collides into the names and the formating goes completely out the window (ie the fake columns I created by setting tab widths is completely disregarded and stuff just formats willy nilly) My question is, is there a way to return the length of text in pixels? My column data is still separated by comma's so I'd love to see a solution that would allow me to get "item 1" and return that length in pixels. There is a backwards solutions that allows me to get the length in characters, ad if I wrote a function I could sort of assume 5 pixels per character and multiply that by the length but this starts to slow things down. Is there a faster method? Sincerely, Simon _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
