newbie question

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In a message dated 28/01/2003 01:39:34 AM GMT Standard Time, 
metacard-request at lists.runrev.com writes:


> A newbie question:
> 
> I want to wrap some single line text in a text box and not use a
> horizontal scroll bar.  I have an algorithm that works.
> 
> But it is horribly inefficient and I'm sure there must be a better way!
> Can you X-talk gurus help me out with this one?
> 
> if (the length of this_line > 80) then
>   repeat with i = 1 to the length of this_line
>     put char i of this_line after field "contents"
>     if (i mod 80 = 0) then put return after field "contents"
>   end repeat
> end if
> 
> Mahalo!

Just set the dontWrap of the field to "true".

/H
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