On 9/17/08 2:12 PM, "David O'Donnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in whole or in part:
> A former FileMaker developer at my company managed to insert merge fields > into a layout that were "smaller" than their field names. That is, if the > field name was "FieldName", the merge field would normally be inserted as > "<<FieldName>>" but he managed to make it so that the field appeared as > "<<Fi". (The width was smaller and the height remained constant at one line > high.) This is great when trying to put merge fields at the right hand > margin of layouts so the horizontal scrollbar doesn't constantly show up and > mess up the appearance. > > I can't for the life of me figure out how he did this, and Google is not > being my friend when I try to search for it. Does anyone have any > super-secret tip on how to accomplish this magic? I'm designing a new > database that would benefit from it. You can resize any (and all) characters after the first "<". This first character is the "magic" character that holds the information. You can then 'down size' the remaining characters. I prefer to keep the first few characters full-size, just as your developer did. That allows you to read *something*! I also like to preserve the full-size for the ending ">>", as it allows me to see where it ends in multiple-merge-field strings. HTH, -- Beverly Voth Tier3 Data & Web Services Group, LLC 606-864-0041 http://www.tier3web.com/xml.htm Web Design & Hosting * Apple: CAN, ACN & ADC Certified FileMaker 7 & 9 Developer * FileMaker Business Alliance Coldfusion, Witango, PHP, MS SQL, MySQL, FMP, XML/XSLT, CSS Over 14 years experience integrating databases and the internet!
