Combo Box Sizes

[RRaven]

I have recently tried to use Combo Boxes to make drop down lists. It seems to be working great, except for the fact that the info I have in there is really long. Is there any way to increase the height of the boxes or allow the text to be "wrapped" to two lines. I have tried changing heighth in formating, but it returns to default. Draging will change width but not height.

Thanks!

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

I have recently tried to use Combo Boxes to make drop down lists. It seems to
be working great, except for the fact that the info I have in there is really
long. Is there any way to increase the height of the boxes or allow the text
to be "wrapped" to two lines. I have tried changing heighth in formating, but
it returns to default. Draging will change width but not height.

Thanks!

You should be able to change the height by Format Control and changing the
height and/or scale. By definition, text can't be wrapped within the comb
box, as it would be ambiguous as to what was being selected.

 

[RRaven]

Unfortunately it will not allow me to change the heighth with format control. Any idea why this would be? And if I can change the height will it just make the text taller or include 2 lines of text if that's the way it is in the original list?

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm going from memory here so don't take this as gospel [although I have
checked it in PC XL] but I believe the Height only pertains to the height of
the Combo Box object itself. IOW, how much vertical space it occupies on the
sheet when *closed* - it has no bearing on how many rows the list displays,
how tall those lines are, the height of the characters or anything else.

As Bob G. pointed out, teh items in the list will not wrap no matter what
you do. If the items must be that long & you want them to be readable in
their entirety you'll need to make the control *wide* enough to display the
longest line. That's universal with Combo Boxes regardless of Mac, PC, or
application - even if the items are in cells containing line breaks the
Combo Box list will still display them as one line each.