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  • Formatting Portals

    From Helpful Harry@21:1/5 to Helpful Harry on Thu Feb 22 10:08:58 2018
    On 2018-02-20 00:46:35 +0000, Helpful Harry said:
    On 2018-02-19 23:37:01 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:
    Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:
    On 2/13/2018 10:23 AM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:

    Among the problems I'm having with portals is formatting. Again, I did >>>> all of this in FMP8, although I no longer remember how.

    How do I control the height of a portal's rows?

    Select the portal and grab the center bottom handle and slide up/down.
    A tooltip will show you the actual row height.

    What is "a tooltip"? The only way I've been able to control row height
    so far is to specify the height of the portal as the product of the
    desired row height and the number of rows.

    That is exactly how you control a Portal's height. There's no point in
    being able to make a Portal that is taller than the number of rows you
    want - what would you use the extra space for? :o)

    If for some strange reason you want to make a Portal look bigger than
    its number of rows x row height really is, you could turn off the
    Portal's borders and use the rectangle shape tool to draw around the
    Portal to whatever size you want.

    Helpful Harry :o)

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  • From Charles H. Sampson@21:1/5 to Helpful Harry on Thu Feb 22 16:26:16 2018
    Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> wrote:

    On 2018-02-20 00:46:35 +0000, Helpful Harry said:
    On 2018-02-19 23:37:01 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:
    Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:
    On 2/13/2018 10:23 AM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:

    Among the problems I'm having with portals is formatting. Again, I did >>>> all of this in FMP8, although I no longer remember how.

    How do I control the height of a portal's rows?

    Select the portal and grab the center bottom handle and slide up/down. >>> A tooltip will show you the actual row height.

    What is "a tooltip"? The only way I've been able to control row height
    so far is to specify the height of the portal as the product of the
    desired row height and the number of rows.

    That is exactly how you control a Portal's height. There's no point in being able to make a Portal that is taller than the number of rows you
    want - what would you use the extra space for? :o)

    If for some strange reason you want to make a Portal look bigger than
    its number of rows x row height really is, you could turn off the
    Portal's borders and use the rectangle shape tool to draw around the
    Portal to whatever size you want.

    My problem is just the opposite, Harry. The Insert Portal mechanism
    seems to always create portals that are larger than the number of rows
    and row size would dictate. Whatever, the problem is solved now.

    Charlie
    --
    Nobody in this country got rich on his own. You built a factory--good.
    But you moved your goods on roads we all paid for. You hired workers we
    all paid to educate. So keep a big hunk of the money from your factory.
    But take a hunk and pay it forward. Elizabeth Warren (paraphrased)

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  • From Helpful Harry@21:1/5 to Charles H. Sampson on Fri Feb 23 15:29:54 2018
    On 2018-02-23 00:26:16 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:
    Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> wrote:
    On 2018-02-20 00:46:35 +0000, Helpful Harry said:
    On 2018-02-19 23:37:01 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:
    Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:
    On 2/13/2018 10:23 AM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:

    Among the problems I'm having with portals is formatting. Again, I did >>>>>> all of this in FMP8, although I no longer remember how.

    How do I control the height of a portal's rows?

    Select the portal and grab the center bottom handle and slide up/down. >>>>> A tooltip will show you the actual row height.

    What is "a tooltip"? The only way I've been able to control row height >>>> so far is to specify the height of the portal as the product of the
    desired row height and the number of rows.

    That is exactly how you control a Portal's height. There's no point in
    being able to make a Portal that is taller than the number of rows you
    want - what would you use the extra space for? :o)

    If for some strange reason you want to make a Portal look bigger than
    its number of rows x row height really is, you could turn off the
    Portal's borders and use the rectangle shape tool to draw around the
    Portal to whatever size you want.

    My problem is just the opposite, Harry. The Insert Portal mechanism
    seems to always create portals that are larger than the number of rows
    and row size would dictate. Whatever, the problem is solved now.

    The button to add a Portal displays the Portal Setup window. At the
    bottom you can specify the number of rows you want. Once the Portal has
    been added you can use the drag handles to make the rows (and therefore
    the whole Portal) taller or wider.

    Different Layout Themes do have different default text sizes, so a
    Theme with a larger text size will create taller Portal rows than a
    Theme with a smaller text size, even though the number of rows is the
    same. It has to to be able to fit in the fields at the bigger text
    size, but everything is manually adjustable.

    Helpful Harry :o)

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