RTF-Area questions

Classic Servoy
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I have 2 questions about RTF-Area.

1.) If I set my RTF-Area to grow vertical, in previewmode it will stop at the bottom of the page, while the area contains much more text. How can I let a RTF-Area grow to another page?

2.) In Design-mode I’ll give my RTF-Area fontproperty: Verdana 10pt.
So I assume that the default font = Verdana 10pt. But in edit mode it is’nt! Is this normal??

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I’ve tested both situations and posted them as bugs to dev. team.
Thanks for mentioning

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  1. fixed in 1.1 rc3

  2. is fixed, available in next release

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Jan Blok is the quick DOC!

GO JAN!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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My RTF-Area does not grow, if I set the RTF AREA to: Allow height to: Grow. It stops on the bottom the paper.
My RTF Area is 450px by 250 px, scrollable, printable and edittable
My RTF Area contains much more text. I am using 1.1 rc3 too.

Am I overlooking something?

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  1. disable scrollable

  2. a note is added to the latest docs:
    IMPORTANT: Fields with the property displayType XXXX_AREA:
    RTF_AREA, HTML_AREA, or TEXT_AREA - can ONLY be set to increase/decrease in width OR increase/decrease in height.

please check this (other wise it does not know to which size to grow/shrink)

  1. does the part (body) on which the element is placed have the property ‘allowBreakAcrossBounds’ = true ?
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Yep, all points checked! That was allright.

The point was that I had to drag the body to the bottom, to 2 or 3 pages, then the Area is growing. The Area does not grow behond the body-part!

Thanks anyway

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Hmm, we missed a point here.
If I create a RTF_area (NOT scrollable,size 320 by 50,printsliding - heigth grow/shrink) and make my body part 10 pix bigger than the area and ‘allowBreakAcrossBounds’ = true

now I fill the area with 3 pages of text (with does for sure not fit), go to print preview and the rtf_area (and body part) is grown over 3 pages.

So there should be NO need to make your body part very big or place the rtf_area in a huge size…

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Hmm strange,… i put back my body-part to one page and now it works.
I am sure it didn’t .

OkM-i, again a problem solved.

But I got the same problem as in Filemaker, sometimes the text (last or first line) is broken in half. Is there anything to do about it?

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We do smart breaking, but if you are using rtf_area of html_area sometimes it is just impossible to break right

Breaking is always correct when text_area / text_field is used

see attached image for impossible break

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OkM-i that I understand, but with normal text too?

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Is fixed will be in next release 1.1 RC4 (this week)