[AccessD] Memo field parsing

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.
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Andy Lacey
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--------- Original Message --------
From: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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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.

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