Re: XForms: How to do a multicolumn browser window?

Christopher Sean Hilton (chris@vindaloo.com)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:36:31 -0500 (EST)

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> :

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, l. guglielmi wrote:

: To subscribers of the xforms list from "l. guglielmi" <Laurent.Guglielmi@cdf.in2p3.fr> :
:
: On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Jamieson M. Cobleigh wrote:
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: > To subscribers of the xforms list from "Jamieson M. Cobleigh" <jcobley@cs.rutgers.edu> :
: >
: >....
: >
: > 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.
: >
: >....
:
: That's exactly what i have done in an application, except that the
: srollbar is an object by itself. The code is not _that_ complicated,
: basically it's just a loop over the browsers.
:
:

Can you digest this into a simple example showing how to link two
browsers?

Chris

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