XForms: How to do a multicolumn browser window? -Reply

Russel Lane (RLANE@tuc.com)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:14:28 -0600

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I have a "multi-column browser" to contribute.
Where do I put it?

>>> "Jamieson M. Cobleigh" <jcobley@cs.rutgers.edu> 01/22/98 09:08am
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<jcobley@cs.rutgers.edu> :

I have an XForms application I am trying to design, where I need to use a
"multicolumn browser". The problem is that the columns are different
sizes, and I won't know how large to make certain columns until run time.

In addition, as my program runs, I will need to change the values of some

columns in a line. I have some ideas on how to do this, and was
wondering if anyone could help out.

1) Use a fixed width font. Figure out how large to make each column at
runtime and go from there. This is the easiest idea (in terms of xforms)
I could come up with.

2) Use several browser windows, one for each column. Make only one

have a vertical scrollbar and "link" them together with creative use of
pre-emptive and post object handlers. This seems to be a more elegant
solution, since xforms will take care of horizontal scrolling of each
column if necessary, it becomes much easier to extract/alter the data of
one column, and I don't have to use a fixed width font. Unfortunately,
the xforms coding becomes more complicated.

Before I go and try to do this, I was wondering if anyone has done
anything along these lines, and can tell me an easier way to do this or
some code to help me out.

Thanks,
Jamie Cobleigh
jcobley@cs.rutgers.edu

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