Setting column elasticity at run time 1

[Repdetective]

Hi

The problem I have is I dont want certain columns to appear at run-time depending on user-input. These columns can easily be hid by returning false in the format trigger. However, if I set the elasticity for all columns to 'Variable' in Prop Palette the columns that I dont want disappear nicely but the remaning columns all squash to the left side. So basically i want the elasticity of the 'wanted' clumns to remain fixed, but cannot determine this before run-time. I have not found anything in SRW package to acheive this. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Repdetective]

So far, the best solution I have found to prevent the number fields from truncating due variable column length, is setting these fields as char instead (via CF) and then lpad the number accordingly to a pre-defined length.

 

[Repdetective]

Unfortunately, the above method only works if the font type is "Courier".

 

[nagornyi]

Look into the anchor tool. Fields hooked with anchors shift to replace the hidden ones not changing their widths.

 

[Repdetective]

Brilliant! That is exactly what i needed.

 

[sem]

You may also place "optional" columns into some nested "elastic" frame.

Regards, Dima

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