Words becoming bunched up over each other?

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 18:05:14 EDT 2006


> Has anyone ever encountered words being bunched up on top of each
> other in a field when using htmltext?
>
> I'm displaying a list of words padded with an amount spaces so that
> each word is equal in length, and then adding a tab after each word,
> and using a mono spaced font.
>
> This does not happen all the time though, only on certain conditions
> it seems.  But I was wondering if anyone else has run into this and
> has figured out how to keep it from happening.

Yes, this happens when a line exceeds the 64K maximum number of
characters. Either split the data into multiple lines or store it as
is in a custom property and only display sections of it at a time.

Cheers,
Sarah



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