There are four ways to do this. The easiest is to used a monospace font and count characters (as Tracy suggested).
The second is to fill the Column One field with ellipsis characters to the max and have column 2 overlay it without transparency. The third is to create a reference table based on actual report data values, that specifies how many fill characters are needed (this will vary with selected font and number of possibilities). The fourth, and my personal favorite for banging your head against the wall, is to use FONTMETRICS() and compute all that miserable stuff. I think you will wind up using either method 2 or 3. If you need more info, let me know. HALinNY => -----Original Message----- => From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James E. Harvey => Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 15:55 => To: 'ProFox Email List' => Subject: RE: Append ellipsis in report column => => I meant tab leader dots, not "ellipsis", sorry. => => It took me a while to get the Word automation to work, I => just was curious if this had been done using a total vfp solution. => => => Column One Column Two => => First Name................... data1 => Second Name Longer........... data2 => Third........................ data3 => Fourth Name really long...... data4 => => => James E. Harvey _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
