IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

[stephen barncard]

"FWIW, LC recently introduced a new property, the tabWidths, which will
accept those values." - Richard

And I can finally drop my  columnsToTabStops and TabStopsToColumns
handlers...


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> dunbarx wrote:
>
>  Richard.
>> ..."FWIW, LC recently introduced a new property, the tabWidths, which will
>> accept those values."
>>
>> Are you implying that the tabStop list that Alejandro posted is somehow
>> not acceptable?
>>
>
> I have to admit that I've had so much going on in my office that I haven't
> followed this discussion in detail.
>
> But I suspect that the problem stems from a feature in the IDE which may
> not have complete error-checking.
>
> The tabstops property requires absolute metrics from the left edge of the
> control; that is, each item is the complete measure from that edge, e.g.:
>
> 100,150,225
>
> Recognizing how onerous this can be, RunRev recently added the tabwidths
> property to allow us to specify only the widths, without having to add up
> the widths for each value, e.g.:
>
> 100,50,75
>
> Perhaps the IDE team recognize this onerousness long before the engine
> team had a chance to address it with the new tabWidths property, and wrote
> the Inspector in a way that effectively allows you to enter what we now
> call tabWidths when setting the tabStops, translating them into true
> tabStop values when the property is actually set in the control.
>
> If that hunch is correct, perhaps certain sequences of values trip up that
> scripted translation, causing the errant behavior noted.
>
>
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