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- From: demerit@vms.macc.wisc.edu (J. DeMerit)
- Subject: Re: Scrolling field problem....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.193517.8957@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
- Date: 7 JAN 93 13:30:41
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- In article <1993Jan7.183928.25218@utkux1.utk.edu>, danny@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Danny William McCampbell) writes...
-
- >Hi all. I have two scrolling fields side by side. Each contain text.
- >I have enabled an option to have the fields to scroll together or
- >seperately. The problem is when the fields are set to scroll together
- >one field has more text than the other and the last few lines of the
- >other field are not visible. I cannot have this. Is there any way
- >to find out what the very last scroll number is in the field with
- >the longest text as well as the other field so when one gets to the
- >end I can set the other one to the end? Please help me........
- >
- >Any suggestions on maybe a different way to go about this would be
- >greatly appreciated.
- >
-
- You could write a script that counts the number of lines in each field --
- determines which is larger and by how many lines -- then adds that number of
- returns (blank lines) to the smaller field. Then you essentially have two
- fields with the same number of lines/the same size.
-
- Cathy (email: demerit@macc.wisc.edu
-