You might need to make the tab space a little larger to
align the columns properly.
---Dave Gotwisner <DGotwisn@wyse.com> wrote:
>
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<DGotwisn@Wyse.com> :
>
> I am running Xforms 0.88 under Slackware Linux.
>
> I created a browser object with multiple columns, using tabs to
separate
> them.
>
> The list is larger (horizontally) than the window, so I get a
horizontal
> scroll bar. Because the text in the columns is variable width, I
can't use
> a proportional font, or the columns won't line up.
>
> If I use a fixed width font (either 10 or 12 point, it doesn't
matter), when
> I scroll horizontally, I get the bottom line of text not scrolling
(ie, junk
> is left on the screen). Furthermore, the first column of one of the
lines
> was an _, and it goes away after scrolling also (result of scrolling
left
> and right ends up looking like a space for the first character on
that line.
> It appears that the vertical spacing between lines is one or two
pixels less
> than the font metrics (descenders for y, g, and other characters also
> disappear).
>
> Has anyone seen this, and if so, does anyone have a workaround or a
fix?
> Ideally, I would like to use the proportional font and get the tabs
right,
> but if not, I can live with fixed fonts (assuming the abovementioned
side
> effect can be solved).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave
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