Jim & Claudine, To keep items straight you need a monospaced font. Courier is one. Arial is not. Lucida is monospaced (may not be on all computers).
Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 1-504-737-3293 --- On Sat, 9/6/08, Claudine Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Claudine Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Popup Lookup Items are Wavey > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 4:57 PM > Jim, > > Try enclosing each LJS in its own parentheses and you also > need more parens > around the (CTXT(VEN_NO)) like: > > ( (LJS(VEN_NAME,25)) + ' ' +(LJS(VEN_ADDR,25)) > + ' ' > +(LJS(VEN_CITY,18)) +' '+ > (LJS((CTXT(VEN_NO)),10)) ) > > Claudine > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of jim schmitt > Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:35 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Popup Lookup Items are Wavey > > Claudine: > > Good to hear from you; and I thought I was the only RB > worker on Sat. > evening. > Thanks for the reply, and I just tried your aerial 8 > suggestion and still > get the wavey lines. > My lookup string is: > > ( LJS(VEN_NAME,25) + ' ' > +LJS(VEN_ADDR,25) + ' ' +LJS(VEN_CITY,18) > +' '+ LJS(CTXT(VEN_NO),10) ) > > I'm testing this on a laptop with 7.6, and wonder if > that has anything to do > with it ??? > > Jim > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Claudine Robbins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2008 2:21:56 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Popup Lookup Items are Wavey > > Jim, > > Courier regular 10 is what I use and I use something like > this: > > ((LJS(co_code,10)) & '|' & (LJS((p_city > & p_st),15))) > > I guess you'll have to experiment. Arial 8 is another > nice one or even > Arial Narrow 8... > > Claudine > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of jim schmitt > Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:03 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Popup Lookup Items are Wavey > > Good Day to All R:Basers: > > DB Edit field with Wavey Popup Items > > I just updated an application to 7.6, and in one of my > forms, when utilizing > a pop-up menu, the 4 items within the menu are wavey (i.e. > not in straight > columns going down). I do have each item LJS'ed or > RJS'ed. In reviewing > the pop-up list font field, the 'list font' for > the lookup field is MS San > Serif. I changed the Pop-up List Font to Courier, and > the four columns in > the popup are now aligned going straight down, but it a > little too 'odd' > looking for me (don't like the courier letter > look). > > What seems to be the standard lookup font for pop-up list > fonts ? > Just trying to arrive at a nice standard looking font. > > Thanks > > Jim --- RBASE-L =======================3D=======================3 D= TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO =======================3D=======================3 D= TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. =======================3D=======================3 D=
