pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) (12/03/89)
My problem is that, after doing some symbolic manipulations, the answer from
the operations is sometimes longer than the limit of characters allowed in a
field.
Now, the user is expecting to see the answer in a specific field, specially when
dealing with matrices. If the answer doesn't fit in the space allocated, what
would be a way of showing the answer to the user?
--------- --------- --------
|field 1 | | field 2 | |field 3 |
--------- --------- --------
How would you handle an "overflow" on field 2?
If anybody faced this problem before and found a solution please let me now.
Pablo
pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu
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I usually interface with ANY user question by ignoring it!! :-) nrg -- York University | "Philosophers who make the general claim that a Department of Philosophy | rule simply 'reduces to' its formulations Toronto, Ontario, Canada | are using Occam's razor to cut the throat _________________________| of common sense.' - R. Harris
taylorj@yvax.byu.edu (12/08/89)
>Now, the user is expecting to see the answer in a specific field, specially when >dealing with matrices. If the answer doesn't fit in the space allocated, what >would be a way of showing the answer to the user? > >--------- --------- -------- >|field 1 | | field 2 | |field 3 | >--------- --------- -------- > >How would you handle an "overflow" on field 2? One solution is to put a script in the field that makes it bigger when the user clicks on it, then reverts to the original size when the user clicks on it again. If you want the user to be able to see all the text right off, your only solutions are to use a smaller font or to make the field bigger. Obviously, when you display data you have to have a big enough space to show the data in. Jim Taylor Microcomputer Support for Curriculum | Brigham Young University | Bitnet: taylorj@byuvax.bitnet 101 HRCB, Provo, UT 84602 | Internet: taylorj@yvax.byu.edu