Trouble with formattedWidth revisited

Martin Blackman martinblackman at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 07:59:37 EDT 2006


Graham, this behaviour is stated in the docs, at least for 2.6.1
Perhaps you could lock screen and go the card in question then return.
Normally the formattedwidth is useful for making a card to be seen by
the user so the behaviour is kind of understandable.

regards
Martin Blackman


>
> That's what I am doing, but it doesn't work if field "myField" isn't
> in the current card of the current stack, at least to as far as I
> understand it - it just returns zero without so much as an electronic
> squawk. Bummer for those of us who want to keep our working fields
> far away in obscure substacks, and worse bummer if  you believe the
> RR documentation (will BZ, I promise).
>
> Graham
>
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