Growing a text box vertically for display or printing

[evbrowne]

I have used 4D since version 1.0 and have never seen this problem.  Last version I worked with was v6 about seven years ago.  I now have version 2004 (8.0.7) and have the following problem:

I have a number of forms that must display onscreen and additionally print an output form.  The output form has a text field that should grow vertically if there is more text then what can be displayed on the first line.

This is not working for me during display or printing.

Does anyone have an answer to this?

Also, why is it that 4D does not grow the text box automatically at printing?  This is default in the PC world of Access and other databases.  I am not advocating MS Access but this should be part of 4D right out of the box.

[Chip Scheide]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:27:01 -0700 (PDT), evbrowne wrote:
>
> This is not working for me during display or printing.
for display there is a property -
Grow Horizontally (and/or) Grow Vertically

For printing -
Print Variable frame property
Also t get printing of variable frame objects to function you need to
make the variable frame object 2 lines 'tall'

> Does anyone have an answer to this?
>
> Also, why is it that 4D does not grow the text box automatically at
> printing?  This is default in the PC world of Access and other databases.  I
> am not advocating MS Access but this should be part of 4D right out of the
> box.
it does - but it is left to the developer to control this behavior -
There are times when you DONT want to print variable frame
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