Re: Switching out of Best Width mode

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Joe

Posted: 02/20/2002 19:51:01

>>So you cannot keep 50% width if table.BestWidth=0, you can keep only fixed

size.

Can I change the fixed size if I do the following:

1. first set the table to BestWidth = -50 (percentage) and then

2. calculate the width of one cell in each column in the table in pixels,

and then

3. set BestWidth = <total pixel value of columns> and then

4. set table.BestWidth = 0?

I tried this approach but cannot find a good way to calculate the width of

a table in pixels.

Is this feasible? If so, is there a way to calculate table width in pixels,

based on cell width?

I want a user, who creates his own table, to be able to first size it based

on a percentage, and then to be able to manually resize the table himself.

Thanks,

Joe.

"Sergey Tkachenko" <svt@trichview.com> wrote:

>If table.BestWidth = 0, there are two possibilities

>1) All columns have width defined in pixels (i.e. at least one cell in each

>column has width defined in pixels, and there are no cells with widths

>defined in percents)

>Table will have width calculated by widths of columns

>2) If not, table will be resized on full window width.

>So you cannot keep 50% width if table.BestWidth=0, you can keep only fixed

>size.

>Probably, future versions will have more smart calculation of table width.

>> If I do the following will the table remain at the 50% width even after

>> return to manual mode by setting it back to 0? Or, does it shrink back

>> its previous size?

>> When I execute the following statement I see it first increase by 50%

and

>> then return to its previous size.

>> How can I keep it from returning to its previous size?

>> FRVTable.BestWidth := -50

>> (Parent as TRichHtml).Format;

>> FRVTable.BestWidth := 0; // return to manual mode

>> (Parent as TRichHtml).Format;