Assuming that I've understood the problem, putting this into the
script of the field concerned might work:
on setMaxTab
lock screen
put the text of me into savedText
repeat for each line L in savedText
if L contains tab then put L & tab after tabData
end repeat
put tabData into me
put 0 into tMaxWidth
repeat with n = 1 to the number of words in me
get the formattedWidth of word n of me
put max(it,tMaxWidth) into tMaxWidth
end repeat
set the tabStops of me to tMaxWidth + 6 -- or whatever suits
put savedText into me
end setMaxTab
best,
Mark
On 20 Sep 2006, at 18:15, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Anyone know of a way to make column boundaries using the vGrid
property but which aren't visible?
I have some fields in which most of the content is just plain
blocks of text, but a part of it contains tabular data. Getting it
to line up properly on both platforms has been problematic, as some
of the cell contents run flush to the next column, and the
differences in font metrics make for unpredictable differences
between developing on one platform and deploying on another.
I've thought about turning on the vGrid, but although it solves the
problem for the tables it puts visible lines through the blocks of
plain text.
I may just have to go with breaking the text into multiple fields,
but this is a last resort as it would greatly complicate the
architecture of the software.
Any suggestions welcome....
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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