Thanks Jafar, I'll check and see if this is available in the IVIB. i'll let you know what happens.
regards Bruce Rennie On 02/11/15 10:46, Jafar Al-Gharaibeh wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > I know that some GUI components have the concept of text wrapping but > not sure which ones do that. I quick look in unicon/uni/gui revealed > that TextDisplay should do what you want. It has a wrap attribute and > the comment around for method set_wrap_mode(s) reads as follows > > > # > # Set the word-wrap mode, which should be one of the following > # values :- > # > # &null, "false", "off", "no", meaning don't do word-wrap (the > default). > # > # an integer (eg 20), meaning wrap at that line length. > # > # "width", meaning wrap at the width of the component. > # > > > Hope this helps, > Jafar > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Bruce & Breeanna Rennie > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Good morning all, > > I hope you all have had a pleasant spring weekend. > > I have designed a form in IVIB which contains a TextField element into > which I am placing a string that is built up from various text > elements > taken from a table. What I am wanting to do is have the TextField > display the text over multiple lines. The text contains long lines as > well as newlines. > > At present, it simple displays the text as one line. Is there any > way to > display it is multiple lines. I have looked at a TextList but this > will > require dynamic calculation on my part as to where to place the breaks > on ling lines. > > When a specific button is pressed the text is copied to the clipboard > for pasting into another application. > > I have pretty much everything else working, but have hit this bump of > displaying the text for the user. Any ideas? > > regards > > Bruce Rennie > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Unicon-group mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Unicon-group mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
