set tab widths on combo box

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 12:02:33 EDT 2012


On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Klaus on-rev <klaus at major.on-rev.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to set the tab widths on a combo box?  I'm getting a
>> "no property specified" error when I try
>>
>>    set the the tab widths of button exTyp to 3
>
> the correct term is "the tabstops of ..."

   set the tabstops of btn prtyp of card entry to 20, 40

yields

    Script compile error:
    Error description: seek: missing 'in'

> But I doubt that buttons can have tabstops at all in their displayed "text"!
> Usually a TAB in the TEXT of a menubutton will create a submenu.

This is a combo-box.  It's *using* tabstops of its own when I put a
couple of tab-delimited values into a single line of its text.  I want
to change them.

thanks


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