TabStops

2003-06-06 Thread Scott Rossi
Many months ago I seem to recall a discussion taking place about tabstops and tab alignment. With MC2.5 there's doesn't appear to have been any change to the tabstops property and I'm wondering if one solution might be to use left, right and center as modifiers for the numerical parameters

Re: TabStops

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Spooner
That's a great idea, Scott. Exactly what I've been hoping for. Craig Many months ago I seem to recall a discussion taking place about tabstops and tab alignment. With MC2.5 there's doesn't appear to have been any change to the tabstops property and I'm wondering if one solution might be to use

tabStops

2001-05-13 Thread Jim Sims
Is there a way to limit the number of tab stops that a line can have? I would like to only have a user be able to input the tab key four times per line in a field...they seem get confused when they see that they can keep tabbing. I have it set to: 230,370,460,600 If I use:

Re: tabStops

2001-05-13 Thread Hugh Senior
Is there a way to limit the number of tab stops that a line can have? I would like to only have a user be able to input the tab key four times per line in a field...they seem get confused when they see that they can keep tabbing. Is there some sort of tabStopsNumber or some sort of limiting

Re: tabStops

2001-05-13 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Jim Sims wrote/ schreef: Is there a way to limit the number of tab stops that a line can have? Is there some sort of tabStopsNumber or some sort of limiting thing I can use? The tabStopsNumber doesn't exits (if it would, it would be more like maxTabs or something), but you *can* script this

Re: tabStops

2001-05-13 Thread Scott Raney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to limit the number of tab stops that a line can have? No. The fact that it repeats the tabs at the same interval as the last two tabStops is a feature (so you don't have to specify them all if you do want them to repeat, which is the most common case

Re: tabkey and tabstops

2001-03-17 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Rick Rice wrote/ schreef: How do I use tabstops and tabkey to put the contents of two variables into a field? I tried: set the tabstops of cd field 1 to "10,50" put variable 1 tabkey variable 2 into cd field 1 Guess you have a 1-word variable name instead of 'variable 1' and '

tabkey and tabstops

2001-03-16 Thread Rick Rice
How do I use tabstops and tabkey to put the contents of two variables into a field? I tried: set the tabstops of cd field 1 to "10,50" put variable 1 tabkey variable 2 into cd field 1 All I get is an error message. Thank

Re: tabkey and tabstops

2001-03-16 Thread PEChumbley
try: set the tabStops of field 1 to "10,50" put variable1 tab variable2 into field 1 Philip Chumbley How do I use tabstops and tabkey to put the contents of two variables into a field? I tried: set the tabstops of cd field 1 to "10,50" put variable 1 tabkey variable 2

Re: tabkey and tabstops

2001-03-16 Thread Rick Rice
Thanks for the suggestion Philip but I still get a "can't find handler" error for on mouseUp global gquestion, gthisanswer set the tabStops of cd field 5 to "10,50" put gquestion tab gthisanswer into cd field 5 end mouseUp Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try

Re: tabkey and tabstops

2001-03-16 Thread Rick Rice
Philip and everyone else who must be shaking their heads in dismay. There is a very significant difference between in and into. Your suggestions works great. Thanks again Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try: set the tabStops of field 1 to "10,50" put variable1 tab

RE: tabkey and tabstops

2001-03-16 Thread Monte Goulding
tab instead of tabKey How do I use tabstops and tabkey to put the contents of two variables into a field? I tried: set the tabstops of cd field 1 to "10,50" put variable 1 tabkey variable 2 into cd field 1 All I get is an error message. Thanks