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... SaveData( aAdditionalData ) and RestoreData: Now, in addition to the standard data that is saved and restired ( columnorder, nRowHeight, column widths, hide/visible status, group headers and column headers ), array of any additional data to be saved and restored can be specified as parameter ...

... on the another button, a blank dialog box appears - is this correct? Yes, it shows a blank dialog. Just downgraded my FWH to 10.07 and the menu widths problem is ok (point 1) How do you build your menu (such popup) ? We have not modified anything in the menu items painting. This is really strange... ...

Just downgraded my FWH to 10.07 and the menu widths problem is ok (point 1)

But the gradient and group problems exist in 10.07!!

Regards,

Pete

Hi, I'm currently testing version 10.08 and have noticed the following problems 1. Menu widths - The width of the menus now size themselves to the size of the biggest item within the menu - it looks a bit silly if you have a menu that just has exit in it. Also, if we ...

I think i've narrowed it down. I think the calculation of the size of the browse when building from a resource is being calculated incorrectly. If i manually resize the browse & it's relating dialog based on each of the column widths the scroll bars appear fine.

Pete

... be directly aligning the text in the GTKEntry and so the results will be affected by the width of the string (variable due to variable character widths) and the width of the GTKEntry. I haven't tried to control text alignment within a GTKEntry but I have done so successfully for a SAY (GTKLabel). ...

... on the font size. In addition, oCol:nDataLen is used to specify the report column width in the Report method. So, to control the report column widths, (1) Use picture clause ( Report allocates as much space that is required ) or (2) Specify oCol:nDataLen instead of oCol:nWidth while defining ...

... the configuration of the browse (which columns) then it would be more difficult. I have not looked at the Report method of XBrowse but column widths are generally setup using the width of a string of capital W's or M's because those are the widest letters. This insures that all strings of ...

... Please note the automatic alignment of numbers and dates and also automatic allotment of column-widths.

XBrowse widths are in screen pixels. Report column sizes are in number of characters. Chaning browse column size has no effect on the report column sizes. Actually xbrowse report method's bSetUp block is called twice ( from version ...

Hi,

This is just a cosmetic thing. I have a dialog with two "identical" grids. I want the grids to be of the same column widths all the time. So, I need to know if the user resizes the first grid so i can update the other one.

Thanks
Bert

Hello Mr. Rao to use nStretchCol property does browse so slow, apparently always recalculating the column widths this effect is visible when does use nEditType >= EDIT_LISTBOX check this samples and click any button or resize any columns or rows... thank for you attention ...

... ----------------------------------- Database display information is saved on Window close. This means that details like open index files, field widths and filters are automatically saved and added to recent files list which can then be used to open the database with options automatically set. ...

Mr JC I have executed your code as it is ( just substituted bitmap names). The widths are okay. Now, to know more about how xbrowse auto-calculates the widths: If we ourselves specify the width xbrowse does not do any calculations and blindly adopts the width we ...

... browses. Im using Visual Studio to create 16bit dlls...what are you using? Ive noticed that you can fool the listbox sometimes by setting the data widths...it is a trial and error thing. I would certainly be interested in a solution to this. I use Borland Workshop. Yes, I try to change the data ...