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When you set a field 'Read only', that field is no longer accessible to
users... it behaves like part of the page's contents.

So what do you do with a multi-line text field where the text can easily
exceed the borders of the field.  You can no longer use the scroll bar.

Our nasty little workaround has been to not set the read-only flag, but to
eat all the key presses to give read-only-ish behavior without locking out
the scroll bars.  Thiks workaround has caused several problems.  "Set all
the fields to read only.  Except the multi-line text fields... leave them
alone and shake a dead chicken at them instead, and incant the magic words."
Yuck.

Can anyone think of an alternate workaround?  We're building these fields in
Cos, so anything that's legal PDF is fair game.

I've submitted this as a bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I'm not going to
hold my breath waiting for their next .X (or .0) release which may or may
not contain a fix, even if they acknowledge this as a bug (and they may
not).

--Mark Storer
  Software Engineer
  Cardiff Software
#include <disclaimer>
typdef std::disclaimer<Cardiff> Discard;

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