How to dynamically limit the length of TextField

[psentosa]

Hi all.

the following problem:

I have a table, which consists of several columns.

One of the columns should contain names of employee.

As usual, some names are longer than the others. And instead of letting a longer name printed in several lines (by activating the option "Strecth with overflow") I'd like to have the name cutted as soon as it reaches the width of the column.

I could somehow do this in java by calling the substring method on the source string to limit the name, but then you would get another problem, that in case a name consists of many "wide" letters (such as m and w), it'll need more spaces, and eventually be longer than the column too, and won't be printed at all.

would be very thankful for any hints (really need this urgently) :)

regards

 

 

[svenn]

You could unselect the property. That would cause your field to be cut.

[psentosa]

Do you mind explaining which property should I unselect?

Thanks

[svenn]

Unselect "Strech With Overflow". Your field value will then be trucated when it reaches the field lenght that you have defined.

[psentosa]

Sorry, maybe I forgot to explicitly mention this,

I don't want to strecth my row/column, that's why I wanted it cutted by the length of the column, thanks anyway for your reply. But maybe antoher idea?

regards