Re: Resend: Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-08 Thread Peter Reid
>A script can't use the textheight to determine the width of a string. >Even with monspaced fonts, there is no relationship between the width of >the character letters and the textsize, and even worse, the textsize >will vary from font to font, and from platform to platform. Luckily >MetaCard has

Re: Resend: Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-08 Thread Peter Reid
>On 7/8/00 11:45 pm, Peter Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I didn't get any response to this one, so I'm trying again in case it >> was overlooked! > >Check out the various table examples on our web site, including the latest >"spreadsheet" style object created by Tuviah! > >Regards, > >Kev

Re: Resend: Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-08 Thread Kevin Miller
On 7/8/00 11:45 pm, Peter Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't get any response to this one, so I'm trying again in case it > was overlooked! Check out the various table examples on our web site, including the latest "spreadsheet" style object created by Tuviah! Regards, Kevin Kevin Mil

Re: Resend: Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-07 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Peter Reid wrote: > I'm trying to display information as pseudo tables in text field > using MC2.3.1 on both Mac and Win. > > I have created field with a set of tabStops and the horizontal and > vertical grid liens are displayed. The text in the field is in Arial > 12pt, plain, say. What I'm t

Resend: Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-07 Thread Peter Reid
I didn't get any response to this one, so I'm trying again in case it was overlooked! --- I'm trying to display information as pseudo tables in text field using MC2.3.1 on both Mac and Win. I have created field with a set of tabStops and the horizontal and vertical grid liens are dis

Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-04 Thread Peter Reid
I'm trying to display information as pseudo tables in text field using MC2.3.1 on both Mac and Win. I have created field with a set of tabStops and the horizontal and vertical grid liens are displayed. The text in the field is in Arial 12pt, plain, say. What I'm trying to do is write a funct