| spacing between text item boxes [message #172235] |
Mon, 15 May 2006 11:22  |
bdrufner
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Home of the Mardi Gras, N...
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RDBMS 9.2, Forms 9.0.4
This sound simply, but I can not find the solution.
I would like to find the property that will allow uniform spacing vertically between my text item boxes.
I am sending an image of a simple screen of employee attributes.
In my perfect world, I would like to group together the employee ID, first name, last name, division, department, and job code fields and uniform the vertically spacing accessing some text item property.
Any solution that does require me to play with each field until it looks "just right" is welcomed.
Thanks in advance for this forum's usually excellent suggestions. It is appreciated.
Barry
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| Re: spacing between text item boxes [message #172289 is a reply to message #172235] |
Mon, 15 May 2006 18:31  |
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djmartin
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Location: Surges Bay TAS Australia
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There are a number of techniques that you can use (at least 3) and I will talk about two of them.
The first field of your 6 fields has a Y coordinate of 40 (say), that is, Y=40. Method one, working with the Object Navigator and Property Pallette ONLY, have the fields listed in the order in which you want them on the screen, set the first field at the X coordinate and Y=40, say the field is 14 points high and you want a 6 point separation, select the next field and calculate Y=base+height+gap=40+20=60, set the Y to 60, go to the next field, Y=new base+height+gap=60+20=80, continue to the last field. Method two, base Y=40, you have six fields, go to sixth field in the Object Navigator, Y=base+((height+gap)*(number of fields-1)), that is Y=40+(20*5)=140, then go to the canvas, select the six fields, go to Arrange, Align Objects, Vertically, Distribute.
David
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