Words becoming bunched up over each other?

Dan Shafer revolutionary.dan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 18:32:17 EDT 2006


Another time I've seen this is when you have the fixedLineHeight of the
field set. I routinely unset that property now and am much happier with
field displays in general.

On 7/14/06, Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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