Hi Nancy,

Thanks for taking a look at my problem! I'm going to post 2 bugs and 2

design change requests.

BUG: Grid control's Autofit() method ignores Column's Textbox .Margin

property resulting in truncated display of Textbox contents.

CHANGE REQUEST: Have the grid control's AutoFit() method take an optional

parameter indicating the amount of margin (in pixels) to add to each

column when sizing columns.

BUG (?) and/or CHANGE REQUEST: Grid cells are not completely highlighted

when a column's Textbox's .Margin is greater than 0. Rather than

highlighting the data entry region of the Textbox control, the entire

grid cell region should be highlighted.

Anyone care to comment/edit these requests before I submit them to MS

(bug reports) and to the UT (change requests).

Thanks!

Malcolm

----- Original message -----

From: "Nancy Folsom" <lists@pixeldustindustries.com>

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:50:33 -0700

Subject: RE: Control margins used by grid AutoFit()

Hi, Malcolm-

> Thanks for the tip (re: use Textbox .Margin property) - it

> works - sort of - but I think it also uncovers an AutoFit()

> bug or two.

>

> 1. AutoFit() appears to ignore the .Margin setting and

> autosizes based on length of TextBox contents - not length of

> contents - .Margin * 2.

>

> 2. Cell highlighting within a cell with .Margin > 0 will only

> highlight the data entry area within the TextBox - not the

> entire cell.

I ran your sample. The ugliness you see in the selected cell is the

margin,

not anything to do with autofit. I'd never noticed it before but then I

never had such an obvious margin. It's ugly, for sure.

I see what you mean about AutoFit not recognizing the margin setting.

Items

are truncated. So, two things, I'd call the latter issue a bug (AutoFit

should account for margins). The issue of padding the columns a bit...It

would be nice if we could, say, pass a parameter to AutoFit that would

set a

padding amount. At this point it would seem to be your best bet to

autofit,

then go through and increment the columns by a bit--not a great solution,

but still easier than doing the whole calculation ourselves, I guess.

Let me know if you decide to post the bug and/or design change request.

If

it's on the UT, I'll vote for it.

Regards-

Nancy Folsom

Pixel Dust Industries

Author _Debugging_Visual_FoxPro_Applications_

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalogpricelists/debugvfp.htm

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