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At 20 FEB 2002 05:31:59PM Mary Jean Blink wrote:

AREV Specific

Is is possible to override the column width and/or heading of a popup that is displayed as a result of a Catalyst('B' . It appears to pull the length from the dictionary. In 2x it just truncated the columns if they sum of all columns was too long. In 3x it appears to just trucnate entire columns.

Mary Jean

mjblink@vsitech.com

At 20 FEB 2002 07:55PM Curt Putnam wrote:

Just cut a little code and call Pop.Up

At 21 FEB 2002 07:02AM Cameron Christie wrote:

Curt's suggestion is the way I'D go, but an alternative for anyone who isn't comfortable with R/Basic might be to define a series of synonyms in the dictionary for the fields you want in the popup e.g.

NAME L#25 and POP_NAME L#15

Then just use the POP_ variants in your Catalyst "B" call (well, I never said it would be pretty…!

Cameron

PS On the other hand, if you're more of an expert you can do some very clever things by defining an MFS on the dictionary of the table, and intercepting and updating the column details (either on a direct read, or from the %FIELDS% record.) I've used this technique in the past, for example, to hide or adjust certain columns in EasyWriter and R/List.

At 23 FEB 2002 06:22PM Mary Jean Blink wrote:

Thanks. This is precisely what we ended up doing since it was just a handful of columns that were causing problems in just a handful of windows and R/Basic programs.

Mary Jean

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