Re: Form - Formatting Text Field

On Friday 11 March 2005 23:01, Thomas W Ping wrote:
> Can't find anything on this in the posts that I've archived since
> subscribing to this list; ditto Google.

Think i've just posted an answer to this, but maybe my brain is buring out, 
so :

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> Migration from Access.  Access memo field (may have been text field;
> don't remember) to MySQL text field.  Form formatting for that field in
> Rekall yields text centered vertically and right aligned regardless of
> settings in Properties.  I've put a lot of work into getting this
> (first of several) databases set up for MySQL/Rekall, but this looks to
> be a dealbreaker unless there is a solution.  This is pretty basic
> stuff for forms; I'm not asking for rocket science. :)  What am I
> missing, here?

(a) what sort of rekall control are you using? memo?
(b) anything "funny" about the text, like (xml-like) markup?

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> Second Issue:  I have enough data in some records in this field to make
> for quite a few lines, and it's all coming out as one line.  I see a
> MySQL text field should be good for someting like 64k bytes; that would
> seem pretty unreadable if it were one huge line.  How can I get it to
> wrap, and for paragraph seperation how do I get hard returns?

Try the "memo" control and see how that does

Mike

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