Re: Formatting Text Field - Form

On Sunday 13 March 2005 20:01, Thomas W Ping wrote:
> > On Friday 11 March 2005 10:04, Thomas W Ping wrote:
> > > Can't find anything on this in the nearly a year's worth of posts,
> > > here, that I've archived since subscribing; ditto Google.
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > (a) what type of rekall control are you using? memo?
>
> Then: text.
>
> Now: memo, as Julian suggested.  Problem solved.[1]
>
> > (b) anything "funny" about the text, like markup?
>
> Nothing at all.  Just text.
>
> [1]But this leads me to another question.  I've done some test editing
> of this Rekall memo field, in a form, in two records.  I've then looked
> at the underlying MySQL .MYD file, and those changes (both involved
> adding text) only appeared in one record.  The changes were retained in
> a Rekall view of those records/fields, even after shutting down and
> restarting Rekall, so it's not like this would be attributed to a
> buffer not being flushed.  I was looking at the .MYD file from the CLI,
> with less.  Why wouldn't the *all* the edits be visible in the raw
> MySQL file, as the edits for one of the two records was?

I'd have thought that they'd be trivially visible. Have you tried the mysql 
command line client to have a look-see ?

Mike

>
> > Ta
> > Mike
> >
> > > 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. :)
> > >  I have enough data in some records in this field to make for quite
> > > a few lines; it contains notes on client contact history.  Any
> > > ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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