Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Aug 3 11:18:53 CDT 2005
That sounds like as much work as developing a single routine to return the first three lines ... Which could also be used to REMOVE the first three lines for the next page. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Andy Lacey [mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 9:09 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Memo field parsing This may sound a naff solution but I reckon any clever one is going to be a lot of work. So this is a pragmatic workaround. Obviously getting the first 3 lines on the first page is easy. You just size your textbox to 3 lines height and make it not grow. Then I was thinking about the second part and thought....if you place a full height (or CanGrow) text control on page 2 it will show the first 3 lines again and then the rest. So if you can't stop it showing the first 3 lines can you blank them out? As long as you don't want the control on page 2 to be too close to the top of the sheet you just place another (empty) control, again of 3 lines height over the top of it (with background not transparent). Seems to work. -- Andy Lacey http://www.minstersystems.co.uk --------- Original Message -------- From: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> To: "accessd at databaseadvisors.com" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Memo field parsing Date: 03/08/05 15:57 Hi Gregg You may find some hints about font metrics here at Stephen Lebans: http://www.lebans.com/textwidth-height.htm Prepare for some fun ... /gustav >>> greggs at msn.com 08/03 5:42 pm >>> Charlotte Physical space I think because I don't know how to get from one to the other. The number of characters is going to be dependant on the how many characters are lost to word wrapping isn't it? Is there a way to calculate the number of characters that will appear in the first three lines? If I knew that, I could do it. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com