On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> M. Uli Kusterer: "I just heard about a cool idea used by an XCMD called
> HyperReports Pro for printing... Would it be possible to add a viewMode
> property to every stack in which you could specify one of "single" (like it
> is now), "vertical" (several cards in the same window, one below the other,
> like in a list field), "horizontal" (several cds in same window, one to the
> right of the other, like columns in a table) and "table" (combination of
> horizontal and vertical)?"
> An interesting idea; I'd recommend that viewMode include a parameter to
> control WHICH cards are affected by/included in these new "view modes". In
> HyperCard,you could do this by making viewMode a property of backgrounds...
I don't see why this would be useful. I can see the utility of a
spreadsheet-like view where the data from fields was displayed with
one column per field, one row per card. But it'd be incredibly
wasteful to display all the labels and blank space between fields in
the multi-card view...
Regards,
Scott
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Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
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