field margins

[Brian Yennie]

firstIndent or leftMargin properties? Not able to check right now, just 
taking a stab...

> Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
>> At 10:07 AM +1200 3/30/05, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> I nedd to use a field as a grid display, which generally works well 
>>> with
>>> one anomaly:  the left margin of the field always has a gap of about
>>> four or five pixels.
>>>
>>> I've tried setting the showBorder and threeD to false, and setting 
>>> the
>>> margins to 0,0,0,0 but still I have that gap.
>>
>> Are you creating the grid display with the hGrid and vGrid, or...?
>> I'm not seeing this here, but just as a guess, what's the field's 
>> tabStops set to?
>
> Yep, nothing more than the old hgrid/vgrid trick to get a simple grid. 
> I've never seen an exception to this issue of seeing the left-most 
> "cell" a few pixels larger than the others, e.g.:
>
>   -----------------------
>   |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |
>   -----------------------
>   |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |
>   -----------------------
>
> I was using 5 pixels this morning.  New specs have be using 20 pixels, 
> but the extra space does not appear to change based on the tabstops, 
> always a consistent two- or three-pixels.
>
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