Problems setting large width of group

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Wed Jul 30 00:19:00 EDT 2003


On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> I have a Timeline that is a group made up of fields and buttons which  
> is generated from a databse.  I just ran into a situation where the  
> group size is set to 1 when the trying to set the width to a large  
> number (60,000 pixels in this case).  In my code I set the width of  
> the group to the formattedWidth of the group.  The formattedWidth is  
> returned correctly but the group width is set to 1.
>
> Anyone experienced this before?

This looks suspiciously like a 16-bit limit to me.  I have seen a limit  
in the number of pixels in a line of text in a field and I think it was  
similar.

Dar Scott

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