Text field scroll bar

[Wingwalker]

Is there a way to show when there is text beyond the field shown on the window?

 

What I mean is, now when I have text the goes beyond the text field on my screen. You have to click on the field to see the difference in the scroll bar and to scroll down. Is there a way to tell there is text you can't see without having clicking on the field first? You know, something that would tell you there is more information so you know to click on the field.

 

Thanks for your help,

 

The Wing Man

[FileMakin' Tom]

As far as I know, you must make the field active to use the scroll bar. One does that by clicking in it.

 

Sorry.

 

Be well . . .

 

Tom

[Ted S]

Hello Wingman,

 

How about something like this:

 

Make a new field called something like: Long_Note_Msg

Make it a calculated field with a calculation something like this:

 

If [ Length (Table::Text_Field) > 100; "More..."; "" ]

 

Then place the Long_Note_Msg field on your layout somewhere.

 

If the note field has more than 100 characters it will display the word "More..." otherwise it will display nothing.

 

I may have the syntax wrong as I was just winging it. WINGING it, HA!

[Maarten Witberg]

You could draw the text box so that the last line of text is shown only half. So people will get irritated and click to see the other half....

 

If this is not to your liking, this shows a workaround - iit needs tweaking according to field size and font size. It's probably not 100% proof but maybe 98...

 

what it does is count the paragraph marks, the words and the characters in the field and decides to show a little arrow or not depending on threshold values. Trouble is setting these values. the character count is easiest - only so many characters fit into a box. the number of paragraph marks seems easy but is not. The word count is in between - if you use a few tests with sample texts then you should get a good estimate of how many words will fit on average, where the hit rate will be higher for larger text boxes (and smaller typeface).

 

kjoe

[Maarten Witberg]

Hey Ted,

 

i had prepared this sample and then I saw your post with exactly the same idea... well I would not want it to go to waste

 

kjoe

[Ted S]

Well kjoe, I guess great minds think alike.

 

BTW, are you still on v5? Are you considering v7?

[Maarten Witberg]

Hi Ted

 

I'm clinging to version 5.5 and 6 as this carries the solution I built for my office. So far there is no reason for us to upgrade to v7, except for my undying wish to do so. I am considering getting 7 out of personal hobbyism -i.e. hanging around this place- but that means spending €500 on a piece of software just to build free samples for other people. I am hesitant to do so. Notwithstanding that the trial runs I had in it do feel good.

 

besides that, samples in fp5 can be read by almost everybody, samples in fp7 only by the happy, er, many....

 

kjoe

[Ted S]

I understand.

 

We upgraded to v7 only recently. So far, security has provided the biggest bang. I'm running on Server Advanced and using external authentication so the users no longer have to login yet the actual security is much, much better.

[Pes]

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Notwithstanding that the trial runs I had in it do feel good.

 

 

 

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Strange...where did you get a trial FM 7 version that runs for months now ?

 

Or am I missing something in this FM 7 forum ?