Seb wrote:
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:53:31 -0600,
Seb <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:00:54 -0500,
Drew Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
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こんにちは ( Hello ) Seb san,
Welcome to the wonderful world of 'the zoom setting' in Base forms -
well OpenOffice.org document windows in general, but it's
particularly fun with Base.
So - open your form and look to the lower right corner of the
window. You will find a slider control, and text display, showing the
current zoom setting for the form.
Set it to something sane - I find 100% a good first guess.. *evil
grin*..
Hi Drew, thanks for coming to the rescue!
I cannot see the that zoom slider when I open the form in any of the
modes. Checking under the "View" menu, the "Zoom" option is greyed
out, but I'm not sure it's the same thing. What toolbar is it under?
Why did it change on you?
No idea, but when working on the report I went to the page width
viewing option and set it to "optimal". That's the only thing I can
guess has some relationship.
I eventually found the zoom slider, not in Base, but in Writer. Oddly
enough after I manipulated the slider in Writer, closed Writer entirely
and then start Base again, then my forms and everything is back to using
the zoom setting I set in Writer. How can I activate the zoom slider in
Base too? It seems to be missing altogether there.
You mean that when you open a form, contained in a Base file, the window
for the form does not have a slider in the lower right corner?
I'm using the
Debian Sid openoffice.org-base package (1:3.2.0~rc4-1). Thanks for the
quick pointer!
If so then sounds like a Debian error
On the other hand if you mean there is no slider at the bottom of the
main Base window, then the fault was mine for not being more precise.
So then
- why did a text document window (Writer) change the display
characteristics of your Base form window?
- why did working with a report in Base do the same?
Because the text document, the Base form and Report Wizard created
report are all OpenDocument text documents.
OpenOffice.org maintains a single LastZoom (not the real name, but for
our uses here) setting, application wide, for text documents.
The LastZoom setting is updated every time any text document's window
zoom factor is changed.
All text documents are smart enough to use this application wide setting
when opened, and adjust the zoom factor for the new window to match.
Simple - huh?
Which gets us to the part about making it stop.....lol...next email.
One final question to you before I go however
- By chance do you already know how to add a hidden control to a form?
Till tomorrow (it's pretty late here)
Drew
