I tried. The problem is that the columns are free form fields. The first
column is a "label" associated with the entry, and can be anywhere from one
character on up. In my test case, the shortest string was 5 characters, the
longest, 25. With proportional fonts, I would need to look at the metrics
for each character to come up with the distance (which is more than I want
to do).
> ----------
> From: T.C. Zhao[SMTP:tc_zhao@yahoo.com]
> Reply To: xforms@bob.usuf2.usuhs.mil
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 1998 7:11 PM
> To: xforms@bob.usuf2.usuhs.mil
> Subject: Re: XForms: Possible browser bug(s)
>
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from "T.C. Zhao" <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> :
>
>
>
> You might need to make the tab space a little larger to
> align the columns properly.
>
>
> ---Dave Gotwisner <DGotwisn@wyse.com> wrote:
> >
> > # To subscribers of the xforms list from Dave Gotwisner
> <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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