Re: Best Width is really a constraint

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Louis Kessler

Posted: 02/15/2002 6:26:09

> From Joe Burton:

> Table.BestWidth is really a constraint in that once you assign a value to

> BestWidth i.e. 50%, you are thereafter constrained from manually widening

> the table beyond 50%.

> Perhaps this is the way it was intended to work, however it would be better,

> at least for me, if you had instead of BestWidth, a property called

> ExpandTableBy. Applying 50% would perform the same as BestWidth but also

> would allow you to "manually" increase and decrease the width of the table.

> In other words: BestWidth without the constraint.

Sergey is trying primarily to enable complete input and output of HTML. As a

result, he has implemented his best widths the way that it is done in HTML.

He also is trying to maintain RTF compatibility, which is difficult since HTML

and RTF are not very compatible in themselves.

So I don't think it would be wise for Sergey to add extra functions such as

you recommend.

Instead, you should work out what your program would do if it only had HTML to

work with. Doing that would probably lead you to a solution of how to do what

you want to do in RichView.

Louis Kessler

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

E-mail: lkessler@lkessler.com

Website: www.lkessler.com