gjditchfield@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield) (03/30/89)
I would like to have several text fields on a card, where the information on the same line number in different fields is related. (Think of a cheque book stack with cheque number, description, and amount columns, or a recipe stack with ingredient and measurement columns.) If too much information is entered in a column, the text wraps around onto the next line, and then the contents of the following lines don't line up. Of course, if the user of such a stack typed too much information in a field, he'd probably notice the misalignment and shorten the line. But the problem can occur in other ways. For instance, if the stack is used under a new system that doesn't have the same fonts as the old one, some other font will be used, and all of the line lengths will change. I'd like to avoid this by turning off line wrap-around in some text fields. Extra text would disappear off of the right edge of the field, but at least the lines would still match up. Is there some way to do this? (In a TextEdit text record, I'd set the crOnly field.) (At the moment, I work around the problem by making the fields very wide, and then putting something opaque on top of their right halves. This gives an unviewable area that lines can expand into. I still have to trust users not to type long lines.)