Kurt, You are right about the Edit box. I was going by the icon that shows up on the properties panel and it looks more like the text box than the Edit box on the controls toolbar. When I put one of each on a form side by side I can tell them apart by the names and a slightly different icon.
I thought I had used horizontal scroll bars before but I must be mistaken. I really would be fine with having text lines that are to wide for the box just truncating. Some of the stuff I found with Google sounds as though truncation is happening for others. I looked for "word wrap" as a property to control this but have had no luck. Is there another property that I have overlooked? Actually, I could process the file a line at a time and truncate the long ones before turning them over to the control to display. It sounds like a grid would be the way to do horizontal scrolling. That work is just not warranted for my current project. Thanks for your input! Joe On Saturday, February 19, 2011 7:21 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: > >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:21:14 -0500 >From: Kurt @ VR-FX >To: [email protected] >cc: >Subject: Re: Horizontal scrolling in a text box > >Joe - you mentioned Text Box in the Subject and below - but, I think you >are Actually referring to Edit Box. I tried both on a form - and looked >at the properties -and only the Edit Box has a Vertical scroll. > >My suggestion - and I didn't actually try this one out - is that you >might try to put the data into some kind of cursor "on the fly" - and >then view that data with a Grid. Then, with a Grid you could scroll >vertically - although I am not sure if it would scroll properly in a >Horizontal direction. Maybe you could even have the cursor have many >fields - maybe each are 5 char wide or so - and then chop up the data >and insert it into the cursor - and view with the grid. In the grid - >you could make it look consistent by NOT displaying the Vertical and >Horizontal lines within the grid. Then, this way - you should have no >problem making in scroll in both directions. Of course, it WILL take >some work to rig it up - but, it may work for what you need... > >...anyway - just a thought. > >-K- > >On 2/19/2011 4:01 PM, Joe Yoder wrote: >> I would like to have a text box on a form allow text to scroll horizontally >> rather than doing a word wrap when a line is too wide to display in its >> entirety. Properties for the textbox allow selecting either vertical scroll >> bars or no scroll bars. I see no way to allow horizontal scrolling at all. >> The issue is maintaining the data in columns. I would settle for turning >> off word wrap but have not found that option either. >> >> Is there a different object that I should be using instead of a text box? >> The data is view only so I don't need editing capability. >> >> TIA for any help - Joe > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
